![]() ![]() ![]() The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. ![]() None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. ![]() Between 19, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation-to construct a nationwide computer network. How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. ![]()
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