BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 24 days agoWhy did the USSR struggle to adopt computers while China is a leader in the industry?message-squaremessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down10
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareWhy did the USSR struggle to adopt computers while China is a leader in the industry?BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square33linkfedilink
minus-squarealexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·24 days agoIf the Soviets had gotten to digitalisation before the West, and OGAS had created the Internet, not DARPANET… We, the communists, would probably have won the Cold War. Or at least, we’d have done a hell of a lot better. God, I want a time machine so I can go knock some sense into Soviet heads of R&D who didn’t see the value of computers.
minus-squareD61 [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-224 days agoMe dumping boxes of 90’s era routers and 56k modems through a time portal pointing to 1950’s era USSR trying desperately to make something good happen.
minus-squarealexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·24 days agoFuck, that’d be good. I wish we could do that.
If the Soviets had gotten to digitalisation before the West, and OGAS had created the Internet, not DARPANET…
We, the communists, would probably have won the Cold War. Or at least, we’d have done a hell of a lot better.
God, I want a time machine so I can go knock some sense into Soviet heads of R&D who didn’t see the value of computers.
Me dumping boxes of 90’s era routers and 56k modems through a time portal pointing to 1950’s era USSR trying desperately to make something good happen.
Fuck, that’d be good. I wish we could do that.