Leah Rowe on Nostr: Random fun fact: Chile was building an analog of our modern internet way back in the ...
Random fun fact: Chile was building an analog of our modern internet way back in the 1970s. A massive, national communications network for business and government to coordinate efficiently. The engineer (Stafford Beer) who designed it was from Surrey, in the UK, and worked for the Allende goverment that was building this system.
After the 1973 coup, General Pinochet had the system destroyed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynHad it caught on, we might have had global internet in our homes in the 1970s.
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