How not to network a nation : the uneasy history of the Soviet internet /

Peters, Benjamin, 1980-

How not to network a nation : the uneasy history of the Soviet internet / Benjamin Peters. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Information policy .

Includes bibliographies and index.

A global history of cybernetics -- Economic cybernetics and its limits -- From network to patchwork : three pioneering network projects that didn't, 1959 to 1962 -- Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 -- The undoing of the OGAS, 1970 to 1989 -- Appendix A. Basic structure of the Soviet government -- Appendix B. Annotated list of Slavic names -- Appendix C. Network and other project acronyms.

"Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation --



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Computer networks--History.--Soviet Union
Internetworking (Telecommunication)--Research--History.--Soviet Union

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General


Electronic Books.

TK5102 / .H696 2016