[ih] Another history question -- Tiananmen Square

[Joly MacFie]

I think consensus is that it was the fax machine..

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957964,00.html

http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2009/06/03/tiananmen-square-and-technology/


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:

> The other day I read a posting someplace about the anniversary of the
> Tiananmen Square protests.
>
> While reading the article I mistakenly took something the author said to
> mean that he (she) thought the Internet was involved.  (I have since found
> it briefly and the author said nothing of the sort.)
>
> I said I thought that the technological enabler in those protests was the
> PC-connected printer.
>
> But now I am worried that I am wrong about that too.  I do think I
> remember reading that somewhere at the time--but I don't have a notion now
> about how they passed data around.  Disks?  BBSs?
>
> Any of you folks who actually know have an opinion?
>
> It is interesting to note that Thunderbird seems to have "Tiananmen"
> miss-spelt as "Tienanmen"
> --
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>                                         of System Administrators:
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>                                         learn from their mistakes.
>                                           (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
>



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