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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/12/2015 01:19, Larry press wrote:<br>
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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>
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<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>
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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>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I stumbled into to it after co-chairing
an HCI conference in Moscow.</div>
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Not said in the article was that the communication went literally
"under the radar" of the censors since the link to the outside world
was a microwave link to Finland - a pretty unconventional route
outside of Russia.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Was this the first instance of
network-based citizen journalism?</div>
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In 2008 I wrote a story for OneWebDay about information that had
permeated out of Beijing during the Tiananmen Square events of 1989.
The message from Beijing that was carried over Usenet is probably
the first instance of network-based citizen journalism.<br>
Read Story 2 from my blog entry: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stories.onewebday.org/?p=40">http://stories.onewebday.org/?p=40</a><br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
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