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I think about this all the time, especially when I get that one tagline about logging on to Hexbear in 2024 communist America. I'm sure there's a billion reasons for why it didn't work out, but I always wonder how different the internet would be if the Soviet Union had survived and computerized early, like with the OGAS project. I'm sure enshittification wouldn't be as rampant. Just like how the USSR provided a progressive political example that the capitalist world had to somewhat keep up with, they would've provided an example of an internet not completely squeezed to death by rent-seeking companies.
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I wonder so often how different things would be if the USSR had invented the Internet first and survived into the Information Age. Could they have won the cultural war that way? Who knows. But it damn well would have led to some neat Soviet state projects.
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