How Not to Network a Nation. The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

126 Chapter 4 convicted of unspecified crimes, and restoring to his studies a graduate stu- dent found guilty of “hooliganry” fo ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 127 was known for a series of subsequent impressive achievements. Researchers at that facility de ...

128 Chapter 4 witch of eastern European folklore), this forest served as a curiously natu- ralistic cradle for Lebedev’s MESM, w ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 129 controlled mechanical explosions in the magisterial monastery. Water fetched from a nearby we ...

130 Chapter 4 growing group of young institute researchers even imagined a humorous autonomous country of their own, “Cybertonia ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 131 marriage certificates to the mostly male research staff and female adminis- trative staff, au ...

132 Chapter 4 Figure 4.9 Cybertonia passport, 1965. (a) front, (b) back. ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 133 Figure 4.10 Cybertonia wedding certificate, 1965. Figure 4.11 Constitution of the country of ...

134 Chapter 4 culture (figure 4.12),^44 and it published at least one issue of a newspaper and made a comedic short film titled ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 135 title “Executives Incognito: On Wanting to Remain Unknown, at Least to the Authorities.”^45 P ...

136 Chapter 4 lively network forums reproduced the cultural, institutional, and gendered mores of the Soviet 1960s, conceiving o ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 137 establish a rolling range of connections, although they often were prohib- ited from doing so ...

138 Chapter 4 Keldysh’s call in 1962 for “the transformation of economics into an exact science in the full sense of the word.”^ ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 139 features frequently in Nemchinov’s official explanation of CEMI’s research tasks, such as “th ...

140 Chapter 4 directors of brand-new and prestigious academic institutes—Fedorenko’s CEMI in Moscow and Glushkov’s Institute of ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 141 all of which concerned the building of an OGAS-related wide-area infor- mation network (note ...

142 Chapter 4 research on the methodology of economic analysis and organization of new opera- tional systems, are replaced by wo ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 143 The shortcomings of these technocratic economic reforms were due both to the complexity of th ...

144 Chapter 4 However, given the disconnect between practice and principal, the OGAS Project appears both more philosophically b ...

Staging the OGAS, 1962 to 1969 145 top-secret military missions enjoyed competitive advantages over other projects. This also me ...