stackyFACTSIn the 1960s, the Soviet Union had a chance to beat America to the internet, but their own politicians strangled the project in its crib.
In the 1960s, the Soviet Union had a chance to beat America to the internet, but their own politicians strangled the project in its crib. The OGAS network was proposed to wire every factory and enterprise in the USSR together to optimize their failing planned economy. But terrified local bureaucrats realized that a transparent, cybernetic network would make it impossible to lie about their production quotas, so they aggressively defunded it out of sheer self-preservation.
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