This is the CIA document that noted that (May 1990): http://web.archive.org/web/20120611225718/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000498691/DOC_0000498691.pdf ht

This is the CIA document that noted that (May 1990): http://web.archive.org/web/20120611225718/http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000498691/DOC_0000498691.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20120611225718/http://www.foia.ci... Notably, it also stated: The telecommunications deficiency is a particularly serious problem for the Soviets. The USSR lacks the type of extensive, serviceable, open-access, civil telecommunications infrastructure has proved to be an essential ingredient in the U.S. software industry's capability to support the needs of software uses an all sectors of the U.S. economy technologies critical to the U.S. Industries lead include wide area networks such as INTERNET, TYMNET and TELENET accessible to most software developers in the United States; equally important are the local area networks used to connect software development teams distributed in different locations within large buildings or among several facilities within a large industrial park. This is a fascinating insight into the projected future, although of the three, it was the INTERNET that hang around and turned the world on its head! TYMNET by the way is noted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet