Someone goes back into the past, the time machine or time travel mechanism becomes unavailable - and that someone is now trapped a considerable amount of time before their own birth.
The divergence in timelines was small at first, and might have just looped around and re-merged with the "parent" except for one tiny detail. The time traveller survived and continued to apply a divergence in the revealing of ideas and concepts and actual knowledge imparted long before such things would normally have been revealed.
Just writing a few phrases to indicate that "Vladimir Lenin" was a problem that should be eliminated at the first opportunity would have caused a major divergence.
Every little bit of future knowledge revealed was not passed on, but enough was that things started diverging. At first on a strictly local level, then regionally, then it just plain took off.
The traveler was:
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