<div dir="ltr">> <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:ff-tisa-web-pro,sans-serif;font-size:22.5px;line-height:30px">And in 1991, there were already a few hundred users connected to the Unix network in the USSR.</span><div><br></div><div>That network played a role in carrying information into and out of the SU and within the SU during the Soviet coup attempt:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html">http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I stumbled into to it after co-chairing an HCI conference in Moscow.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Was this the first instance of network-based citizen journalism?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Larry</div></div>