Stafford Beer's Chilean Cybersyn project was one of the inspirations for the Community Memory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory http://en.wikipedia

Stafford Beer's Chilean Cybersyn project was one of the inspirations for the Community Memory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory) project in the Bay Area in the early seventies, which, being the first public computerized bulletin board system (and flea market), helped lead to today's World Wide Web and related.