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<br></div><div><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957964,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957964,00.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2009/06/03/tiananmen-square-and-technology/">http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2009/06/03/tiananmen-square-and-technology/</a><br>

</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Larry Sheldon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:LarrySheldon@cox.net" target="_blank">LarrySheldon@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The other day I read a posting someplace about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.<br>
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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.)<br>
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I said I thought that the technological enabler in those protests was the PC-connected printer.<br>
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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?<br>
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Any of you folks who actually know have an opinion?<br>
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It is interesting to note that Thunderbird seems to have "Tiananmen" miss-spelt as "Tienanmen"<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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