In the early 1960s, a Soviet mathematician and cyberneticist named Viktor Glushkov floated a remarkable idea. He proposed that the Soviet Union build a nationwide computer network that would manage and automate the entire economy in real time. Known as OGAS, obshche-gosudarstvennaya avtomatizirovannaya sistema (National Automated System for Computation and Information Processing), it was one of the most ambitious cybernetic projects ever conceived, several years ahead of competing networks like the ARPANET and what would later become the internet.
The proposed logo of OGAS.
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OGAS: The Soviet Internet That Failed
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