How an Insurrection Strangled Chile’s Digital Utopia: Cybersyn, Part 3 | Kernel Panic | Mashable

In the 1970s, the US government and a group of universities were working on the fastest possible way to connect unwieldy mainframe computers separated by thousands of miles. Their work, the ARPANET, would become the basis for the modern internet. The networks we now depend on still reflect the purpose and worldview of its time and place: open, uncontrolled, and uncontrollable.
But there is another story. A hemisphere away, a group of programmers in Santiago, Chile were building a network of their own. Project Cybersyn had a purpose, ethos, and design completely different from the American network. In the two brief years it lasted, Cybersyn's creators saw the shape of something unique, something that was lost before we ever really learned what it could have meant to a networked world.
In episode three, Allende's Chile falls, and the team around Project Cybersyn suddenly find themselves enemies of the state.
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[@wakkawagga443]

Is this shadow banned or why has it so few views?

[@therexbellator]

I'm kind of divided on this three-part documentary. It seems to be more about Stafford Beer and Chile than it was about CyberSyn... I wanted to know more about the system. How it worked. What hardware did they use? What kind of capabilities did it have? Everything we learn is pretty superficial. However it's good to know the people involved got to share their story about this brief but fascinating period in Chilean history. What the United States government did to Chile and Allende is inhuman and incomprehensible and as an American I am ashamed of what was done in the name of our political interests. The Cold War may not have been a 'hot' one but we are still paying the price for its many casualties.

[@motog6436]

They couldn't talk about that because it wasn't "real". All the fancy computer displays were literally just glass with paper behind them made for photo ops. It was a disaster, and so now it's forgotten they're trying to rewrite history

[@m_tron99]

@@motog6436what’s your source for that

[@motog6436]

@@m_tron99 literally all on Wikipedia

[@EyFmS]

​@@motog6436Bullsh*t there is absolutely nothing on wikipedia that says that. The whole project was buried just like they did with people deemed undesirable by the military junta.

[@k.t.5405]

min 2:45 by '74 , Watergate had flushed Nixon and his henchmen down the toilet... NO WAY Jerry Ford was gonna start sht.

[@yungyahweh]

This deserves way more views. Thanks for the awesome job 😊

[@lubnaqureshi2853]

I should clarify my statement about Portugal. In 1974, leftists did come to power in a military coup. Afterward, the leftists remained in power, undisturbed by any U.S.-sponsored counter-coups. Washington accepted Portuguese self-determination, even as it violated Chilean sovereignty.

[@francesbernard2445]

The word leftists is way too vague.

[@lubnaqureshi2853]

@@francesbernard2445 So, what? The point is that the Nixon administration would not tolerate any leftist government, whether Socialist or Communist, in Latin America.

[@inovakovsky]

@@francesbernard2445 In Portugal, they were social democrats that did not leave NATO (Portugal has been an early member) and at most nationalised banking, but I am not they got rid of shareholders/capitalists.

[@k.t.5405]

by '74 , Nixon and his henchmen were gone....

[@lubnaqureshi2853]

Thank you for the clarification.@@inovakovsky

[@schmudde]

Stay for the credits; I love the juxtaposition of the mid-century interviews.

[@GringoLoco]

Incredible story of what might have been...

[@sebastians783]

Llego la hora hermanos latinos ❤️

[@francesbernard2445]

Some were women around the world including here too in Edmonton, Alberta Canada who were more conservatives on the right who never received much more than minimum wage while both helping to build the ARPNET at first with things like only a hole punch and next with better tools while doing the same math that the rest of artificial intelligence experts were using then on the modern internet too. When later some of those same women experienced the stricter hiring laws to prevent racism in the hiring process then a lot of them some of whom were born in places like India or in Chile who then in North America already had university level computer technology engineering skills had to go back to school again here after they lost a job during 2008 stock market crash next to prove that they deserved any wages at all while working in information technology to anyone hiring them. Some of the much younger students in their immaturity hated those old women students there in school too only because they were much older than them and they were female. I had the pleasure of meeting one at that school called N.A.I.T. while wishing that she was my classmate still in the first year of that program instead since she was so much more knowledgeable about computing than any of us in first year.

[@k.t.5405]

min 2:45 by '74 , Watergate had flushed Nixon and his henchmen down the toilet... NO WAY Jerry Ford was gonna start sht.

[@rmultimateoffice]

Is there any way to contact you?

[@PrezVeto]

The use of the term "insurrection" in the title to refer to what's almost always called a "coup" is telling. Trying to link certain things in people's minds, are we, Mashable? Try actual journalism.

[@jacobbatchelor7877]

What an extraordinarily strange hill to die on.. You must be American, you yanks are always so arrogant in your ignorance on the language you speak. Quick etymology lesson for you. 'Insurrection' comes from the Latin word 'Insurgo', where as 'Coup' derives from the French saying, 'Coupe d'état'; they both mean practically the same thing they just come from different languages. Edit: "It's almost always called a coup" because you choose to repeatedly read the same monotonous drivel aimed at the lowest common denominators available. Perhaps expand your reading material away from buzzfeed titles and the like and you might find yourself seeing more colourful vocab being bandied about.

[@liberalizzzm4908]

True

[@YouLoveMrFriendly]

I always knew Mashable were Communists.

[@ConanXin]

在20世纪70年代，美国政府和一群大学正在研究用最快的方式来连接相隔千里的大型计算机。他们的工作，即ARPANET，成为现代互联网的基础。我们现在依赖的网络仍然反映了其目的和世界观：开放、不受控制和不可控制。 但还有另一个故事。在半球之外，智利圣地亚哥的一群程序员正在建立一个属于他们自己的网络。Cybersyn项目的目的、精神和设计与美国的网络完全不同。在它持续的两年时间里，Cybersyn的创造者们看到了一些独特的东西，这些东西在我们真正了解它对网络世界的影响之前就已经消失了。 第三部分，阿连德的智利政府垮台了，围绕着 "Project Cybersyn"团队突然发现自己成了国家的敌人。