How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
Benjamin Peters — How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (2016)Benjamin Peters · 2016 · Book · chapters on OGAS, 1962–1970EstablishedSource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0844 · as of 2026-10-27 · about: OGAS: the Soviet national automated management network · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“In 1962 Glushkov proposed a three-tier computer network (one central centre in Moscow, up to about 200 mid-level centres in major cities, up to 20,000 local terminals at production sites) for accounting, planning and governing the Soviet economy, including electronic payments instead of paper money.”
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Benjamin Peters — The Soviet InterNyet (2016)Benjamin Peters · 2016 · Web page · section on the OGAS designEvidence that contradicts
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