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Why the forgotten Soviet internet was doomed from the start

Chris Baraniuk · BBC Future · 2016

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EstablishedThe Politburo heard Glushkov on 1 October 1970; Finance Minister Garbuzov opposed the full plan and favoured a narrower network of computing centres, so OGAS was not adopted as proposed.DisputedPeters argues OGAS failed chiefly through unregulated competition among Soviet institutions, not for lack of technology or private property; other accounts add cost and Glushkov's death in 1982.