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from the would-have-been-better-than-facebook dept.
Between 1959 and 1989, leading Soviet men of science and state repeatedly ventured to construct a national computer network for broadly prosocial purposes. With the deep wounds of the Second World War far from healed (80 per cent of Russian men born in 1923 died in the war), the Soviet Union continued to specialise in massive modernisation projects that had transformed a dispersed tsarist nation of illiterate peasants into a global nuclear power in the course of a couple of generations.
After the Soviet Union's leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's personality cult in 1956, a sense of possibility swept the country. Onto this scene entered a host of socialist projects to wire the national economy with networks, among them the first proposal anywhere in the world to create a national computer network for civilians. The idea was the brainchild of the military researcher Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov.
Interesting article on the aborted Soviet Internet. There's a redolence of Mirror, mirror to it.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @04:01AM
Who says it's a "man's world"?
Except possibly the 20% who survived, who had choice galore, even if missing a limb or two.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @10:42AM
President Hillary should issue an executive order to execute 80% of women just to stop Bill from screwing around.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 18 2016, @04:56PM
> Who says it's a "man's world"?
Indian and Chinese women.