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Hi, I'm Edward Betts, I'm a Geek and a Debian developer living in Holloway, London.

My day job is coding Web Applications in Perl.

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Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners, Agile Methods, Alcohol as a fuel, American literature, Asymmetric warfare, Atomic Age, Augmented reality, Auto-free zone, BBC Radio 4, Bicycles in warfare, Category:Big Science, Broken arrows, Capitalism, Chip and PIN, City, Cold War, Command line interface, Communist state, Cyberpunk, Dark fibre, Disasters, Dot-com, ETOPS, Economics, Electricity liberalization, EURion constellation, European Union, Ford Nucleon, Free flight (air traffic control), Free software, Gaia theory (science), Generation X, Glocalization, Google, Greenspun's Tenth Rule, International organisation, International trade, Irrational exuberance, LaTeX, Limits to Growth, London, Microwave power transmission, Military-industrial complex, Moral panic, Noam Chomsky, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear accident terminology, Mean center of U.S. population, Military occupation, PearPC, Politics, Private military contractors, Profit maximization, Public transport, Python programming language, Radioisotope thermoelectric generators, Relaxed stability, RFID, Science Fiction, Self-publishing, Semantic web, Simulated reality, Skyline, Social software, Socialism, Soviet Union Techno-utopianism, Technological singularity, Terrorism, Transhumanism, United Nations, Urbanization, Usury, Web development, Webvan, Yield management

Communist state imitations

I was born in 1981, I remember seeing the Berlin Wall on TV. The cold war fascinates me, what if we still had the Soviet Union, what would the world be like today? Would Soviet citizens be allowed on the Internet? Would they write blogs?

I like how they were always trying to copy the west. Here is a table with a list of examples.

Western world Eastern bloc
Encyclopædia Britannica Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926)
Olympic Games Spartakiad (1928)
B-29 Superfortress Tupolev Tu-4 (1940s)
Vickers VC-10 Ilyushin Il-62 (1963)
Concorde Tupolev Tu-144 (1968)
Boeing 707 Model 120 Shanghai Y-10 (1970s)
Space Shuttle program Shuttle Buran (1976)
2001: A Space Odyssey Solaris (movie) (See Solaris (movie)#Solaris and 2001)
Western movie Ostern (1957)
European Economic Community Comecon (1949)
Nobel Peace Prize Stalin Peace Prize (1949)
NATO Warsaw Pact (1955)
Fat Man Joe 1 (1949)
BBC World Service Radio Moscow World Service (1980s)
James Bond Stirlitz
IBM System/360 ES EVM (1968)
IBM PC ES PEVM (1980s)
PDP DVK
Unix MOS (operating system) (1980s)
PDP-11/40 SM-4 (1970s)
PDP-11/34+ SM-1420

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