OGAS

OGAS project logo.

OGAS (in Russian : Общегосударственная автоматизированная система учёта и обработки информации) “All - State Automated System" (OGAS) was a project in Soviet Union to create a nation-wide information network. The project begun in 1962 and its primary architect was Viktor Glushkov. The project was planned, but eventually the Soviet Union was not able to implement it. OGAS wasn't the first project to build a nation-wide information network, prior to it Anatolii Kitov had designed a similar project in 1959. When OGAS failed, Glushkov started a second project in 1963 : EGSVT. This project was planned but was not carried out as well. It was also underfunded.[1][2]

When EGSVT failed, the next attempt was done in 1964 by Nikolai Fedorenko, who attempted to build an information network that could be used in economic planning in Soviet Union's planned economy. The project was successful at a micro-level but did not spread into wide use. Soviet network plans failed while American ARPANET, and for some extent French Minitel, succeeded. The main reason of that failure has sometimes been considered as their too centralized structure (though in France, Minitel did succeed relatively well despite its own centralized structure).[2][3][4]

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References

  1. ↑ Benjamin P (2008). "Why the Soviet Internet Failed" (PDF). MiT 6 Conference.
  2. 1 2 Gerovitch S (December 2008). "InterNyet: why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network" (PDF). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 24 (4): 335–350. doi:10.1080/07341510802044736. ISSN 0734-1512.
  3. ↑ Peters, Benjamin (2016). How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262034180.
  4. ↑ Peters, Benjamin (2016). "The Soviet InterNyet: How the Soviets invented the internet and why it didn't work". Aeon digital magazine. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
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