Shadow1980 said:
The Cold War was over before the internet became well-known to the general public. The Soviet Union had dissolved completely by Dec. 1991. The World Wide Web had only come into existence mere months earlier. I doubt the absence of a publicly-available internet would have changed anything about the outcome of the Cold War. Geopolitically, I imagine the 90s wouldn't have been much different without a public internet. |
You got it the other way around. I'm trying to postulate a point of divergence for the internet not to exist, not speculating about its geopolitical effects or absence thereof.
Also, for the last sentence... butterflies and black swans. For all we know, in our alternate 90s, Putin could die from cancer and Bin Laden decide to really jam airline jets into nuclear power plants. That's what I'm saying it's useless to talk about how gaming develops in such a scenario. There would be no Google, no Facebook, none of the games and consoles we know in the last 30 years etc.
