Chatonverse World History

Here is a list of events that have happened in the world, and how they're different in the Chatonverse to OTL. Some listed changes were incurred by Chaton Industries, while others weren't.

Annexation of Canada
The Annexation Bill of 1866 is passed, and Canada becomes part of the United States. However, the OTL provincial and territorial borders and names are the borders and names of the modern-day states in Chatonverse (due to the “in spite of a nail” effect), with a few exceptions: Quebec majorly speaks English, including English road signs, but 50% of people in Quebec still speak French.
 * OTL Northwest Territories is unofficially called Arctic Territory (unorganized incorporated territory) before Nunavut is formed, and is now the State of Denendeh.
 * OTL British Columbia is called the State of Columbia instead.
 * Newfoundland and Labrador are two separate states.

This also makes Alaska a contiguous “Lower 65” state.

Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Denendeh, and Nunavut are considered west of the Mississippi (and use the “K” callsign), while Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island are considered east of the Mississippi (and use the “W” callsign).

In terms of TV networks, CBC, Radio-Canada, and CTV don’t exist, but Global, CityTV, The New Network (OTL CTV2), and Omni Television do exist, as well as private French networks like TVA and Noovo. BBS (Baton Broadcasting System) did exist, at the same time as OTL, but was bought out by Tribune instead of Bell/CTV. OTL provincial public networks like Knowledge Network BC, TVOntario, and Tele-Quebec, as well as ones that are defunct in OTL like SCN Saskatchewan and Access Alberta, are part of PBS in Chatonverse, and when they are cable-only in OTL, they have terrestrial transmitters in Chatonverse.

Other changes
Superior (the Upper Peninsula), Douglass Commonwealth (Washington DC), and Puerto Rico all become states, meaning that there are 67 US states.

Interstate and US Highways
Since Canada is part of the United States in this timeline, several changes to the Interstate and US Highways are made. For example, OTL BC-99 is part of I-5 in this timeline, and OTL BC-97, YT-1, and AK-2 are all part of US-97.

Almost all OTL provincial and territorial highways, that aren’t made part of the Interstate or US Highway systems, become state highways.

The numbering grid is also changed to include OTL Canada, which means all even-numbered east-to-west Interstate and US Highways have different numbers.

TV networks

 * Major (or “Big 3”) English networks are NBC, ABC, and CBS.
 * Mini-major English networks are Fox, The CW, Global, and CityTV.
 * Minor English networks are MyNetworkTV, The New Network, Omni, and Ion.
 * Spanish networks are Univision, Telemundo, UniMas, and Azteca America.
 * French networks are TVA and Noovo.
 * PBS, as well as religious networks, are the same as OTL USA.

Wikimedia
Wikipedia is formed 2 years earlier, in 1999 instead of 2001, and as well as Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, there is Alexis Chaton, a Chaton family member who left Chaton Industries in 1997. After Sanger left in 2001, and Wales left in 2004 to form Wikicities, Alexis Chaton is the sole remaining of Wikipedia’s 3 co-founders to still be involved with Wikimedia, though she also founded Miraheze in 2009, and doesn’t really have much of a role in the Wikimedia Foundation anymore, spending more time on Miraheze.

NFT crash
It is exposed early on in the bubble (around mid-2021) that many NFT “collections” such as “Bored Apes” and “Lazy Lions” are used as a vehicle for money-laundering by a group of neo-Nazi pædophiles called the “Aryan Man-Girl Love Association” (AMGLA). As a result, the FBI seizes and shuts down several NFT sites such as Rarible, Foundation, and OpenSea, the reputation of the NFT community and crypto community is permanently ruined, and the NFT bubble is “popped” forever, never to return. Many companies realize NFTs and blockchain are a dangerous investment, and scrap unrealized plans for their own NFTs or blockchain ventures. Chaton CEO Theresa Chaton was against NFTs from the start, even before the linkage to AMGLA was revealed.

NFTs are now seen to be a tech failure along the lines of Microsoft BOB and Google+.

Other changes

 * Wikia/Fandom is still called Wikicities, and offers the default MediaWiki skin (initially Monobook, later Vector) as an option along with its own custom skins (such as Monaco from 2008-2009, Oasis from 2009-2020, and FandomDesktop (here called Lucy) from 2020-present). “News and Stories” never exists, as in Chatonverse, the company wants to focus on its wikis. It was acquired by Chaton Industries in 2006.

Windows
After Chaton Industries acquired Microsoft in 1998, more work was put into Windows, which means several additional Windows versions exist:
 * Windows XP Second Edition (2002)
 * Windows Longhorn (2004)
 * Windows 7.1 (2010)

Also, Windows Server was never separated from “consumer” Windows, meaning that all Windows Server 2003 editions are Windows XP Server editions instead, and so on.

Other changes
MacOS continues using the names of cat species, instead of towns in California:
 * 10.9 Cougar
 * 10.10 Lynx
 * 10.11 Bobcat
 * 10.12 Serval
 * 10.13 Caracal
 * 10.14 Liger
 * 10.15 Margay
 * 11 Ocelot
 * 12 Jaguarundi

Gaming
Since Chaton acquired Nintendo in 1989, this means that the Xbox consoles never exist, and since Microsoft and Nintendo are both owned by Chaton, this means Rare is still closely tied to Nintendo, despite being bought out by Microsoft. All OTL Xbox-console exclusives are Nintendo exclusives instead.

Celebrity deaths

 * Billy Mays never used cocaine, and as a result, is still alive. He was the 45th US President from 2017 to 2021, instead of Donald Trump.
 * Donald Trump died in a plane crash in 2009 in this timeline. His OTL supporters support Billy Mays instead.

Other stuff

 * Elon Musk has been in jail for tax fraud since 2009.