*An article from sixteen years ago, but entropy requires no maintenance. "Make and take," comrade. During the Cold War scientific collaboration between the West and the Eastern-bloc countries was ...

[Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary computer, was developed at Moscow State University in 1958. Its troubled and ...

"Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise ...

We admire [Alex Studer’s] approach to schoolwork. His final assignment in his history class was to do an open-ended research project on any topic and — this is key — using any medium. He’d recently ...

In the 1950s, the Soviet computer industry’s future seemed bright with the MESM. But by the ’80s, they were more content to simply clone their Western counterparts. Oobject brings us this collection ...

At first glance, speaking about a “Soviet Internet” seems paradoxical and anachronistic. Yet, such a thing did actually exist. This is why a top level “.su” domain (for Soviet Union) still remains on ...

In the 1980s, a Soviet computer scientist headed for Moscow with U.S. software tapes hidden under his clothes. Three decades later, his colleagues gathered at a California dinner party to reminisce ...

In the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union withdrew from its occupation of Estonia, the country had nothing in place to support a new government. In 1991, the Soviet Union officially recognised the ...