Frivolous ASB thread

True. I suppose we ought to send chargers along, which the '50s people are statistically likely to figure out the purpose of pretty soon and plug them into the walls accordingly. As for whether the smartphones work or not, we could assume suspension of disbelief so that they're more than just impossibly hi-tech, but non-functioning devices whose purpose looks to be initially unclear. Imagine their faces once they find out that not only is it a handheld phone, but also a panoply of other things--a camera, a TV, etcetera--all rolled into one.

Having perused Google over the history of plugs and sockets up to the present day, the prospect of '50s people having the right ones to make use of the chargers looks...suspect, at best. If the answer is no, maybe ASB also provides accompanying adaptors to make them work?

Also, "How Would 20th Century Authorities Govern the Modern Internet?" For one, I imagine much less permissiveness and greater censorship of its content--not only to "preserve social order" or ensure that national security needs are met, but also to enforce copyrights and trademarks with considerably more stringency than 21st Century policymakers tend to today.

Oh, I'll bet that the USSR & Friends would wipe it out and probably seize all privately owned IoT devices for "national security reasons". Liberal-democratic nations' responses, however, are much harder for me to gauge (though I wouldn't put it past them to at least impose PRC-style censorship on their shares of the Web).

But ISOTing, say, a large portion of a particular country to its mid-century counterpart would make downtimer crackdowns leaps and bounds more difficult. For example, I can't imagine that 2019 California would let '50s-era Washington take control of what's left of their internet that easily. Plus, trying to outright ban it is debatably a violation of the First Amendment anyways.

Well, even if the Golden State doesn't have a larger economy, they still possess 21st Century technology that makes NASA's 1969-era computers look like cheap pieces of shit. And that sixty-something year advantage obviously applies to their defense capabilities as well, meaning that America would be in for Hell if it were to initiate force against them.

Unfortunately, California wouldn't be invulnerable, as key sources of outside goods and services have disappeared in the ISOT--meaning that it may have to rely on other players to replace the billions of lost imports it once took in.

WI Everyone Featured In Its Songs Reacted to Sabaton?

Considering how many songs they've released throughout the years and all the places and time periods they cover, no. But, I can infer that the pre-recording people they discuss would be baffled at the strange, booming music that somehow plays with vocalists and/or instruments nowhere in sight. Even early to mid-20th Century people would likely be baffled by it.

There's also "What Fictional Characters Would You Bring To Life?", which is similar to another one that I came up with and spoke about earlier in this same thread.