One of the most Funny things that has happened in My imagination is that : 1846-1848 Russo-Roman war caused nicholas 1 to pass on 2 years earlier OTL so Alexander 2 opens talks again [ with U.S. of America ] and , after paying All bonds [ back to Romans by 1855 ] , Russians sell Alaska to U.S. of America for 6 000 000 USD - backed by Gold standard - under the name of " Harris Purchase " , so Seattle gets founded a decade earlier as San‑Francisco entrepreneurs push for Sitka‑to‑Puget Sound Shipping lanes and this was easier for U.S. of America because Manifest‑Destiny mood , Mexican War victory , and California Gold Rush had already put cash in American hands so because Roman empire caused this Sell-out of alaska Roman merchants sign Shipping agreements with U.S. Pacific ports , exchanging Black‑sea wheat for Californian Gold equipment making Major Port cities become early Eurasian entrepôts ; ironically strengthening the Roman empire causing Over time for today's Roman republic to be one of the Top three exporter of Small Hydro-power turbines because this exchange had lead to the Cascade Tech hubs maturing One Generation early - i.e./ OTL : Kennecott's Alaskan Copper lodes exploited from 1900s and consequently fed U.S. electrification in the 1920s , however in This Time-line : Sitka is U.S. territory during the first Edison boom ( 1870s ‑ 80s ) and Russian Survey maps handed over in 1857 already list Chitina Copper inflections so U.S. engineers , chasing wiring contracts for San Francisco Street cars , organise the New Alaska Copper Syndicate in 1873 causing West‑coast cities to electrify earlier [ Seattle Street‑lights in 1885 , & Los Angeles in 1890 ] causing the syndicate to sponsor a chair of Electro‑chemistry at Seattle College in 1889 which is the seed of the future Cascade‑Pacific Tech cluster - so this gave a reason for U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Network in 1966 to choose Seattle , and not Los Angeles , as Its Pacific node , and when commercial TCP/IP breaks out in the 1980s , the SEA‑IX ( Internet Exchange ) leads West‑coast Routing tables making Trans‑Pacific Cables land in alaska first , crossing under the aleutians to vladivostok which also bred the grounds to Roman grain surpluses buying American dynamos , but the Kayzer's university reforms ( and later the constitutional republic after 1911 ) import Electrical Engineering textbooks wholesale making Thessaloniki Polytechnic build Hydro‑electric prototypes on the Vardar in 1901 ( nine years early ) , making greek & armenian engineers who learn in thessaloniki later staff Soviet Electrification projects after 1917 in the same time as while U.S. of America was building Street-lights ; so in short , This war indirectly caused the foundation of internet getting based on alaska.
OTL : OURTIMELINE