What other networks were out there, in the 1950s-70s?

CYCLADES + ARPANET?

Schwartz M, Abramson N. The Alohanet-surfing for wireless data. History of Communications. IEEE Communications Magazine. 2009 Dec 11;47(12):21-5.

And now for something completely different

a network that failed entirely

Servos (from the latin for 'slave')

Descends from Cybernetics by way of Jay Forrester & the Nixon Administration

Anatoly Kirov

Economic Automated Management System

Общегосударственная автоматизированная система учёта и обработки информации

National Automated System for Computation and Information Processing

"Isn't it ironic, don't you think?"

- A. Morissette, 1996

Given the Soviet Example

What does that imply for our currently enshittified web?