<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">;-) I remember that Russian coup. Hilarious. What a joke.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For anyone who had read Luttwack’s <b class="">Coup d’etat: A Practical Handbook,</b> it was obvious it would fail from the start. The last thing you do in a coup is take the legislature. It has no power. I was joking as it collapsed that someone should send them copies of the book to read in prison. ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A decade earlier I had made the same prediction about the Spanish coup attempt. A friend ran into my office saying there was coup going on in Spain and they had captured the legislature. I looked up from what I was doing and said it would fail. He demurred he wasn’t so sure. I explained why. ;-) Sure enough. It sure made Juan Carlos look good. ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 31, 2015, at 17:05, Ian Peter <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com" class="">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Seems like there were a few parallel initiatives underway in late 1980's <br class="">early 1990's - the one I remember was Glasnet from 1991<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/telecomm/nato/zaytsev.html" class="">http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/telecomm/nato/zaytsev.html</a><br class=""><br class="">And its hard to forget the excitement of "The Tanks are coming, The Tanks <br class="">are coming" newsgroup entries of August 1991 carried on APC networks at the <br class="">time the tanks moved into Red Square.<br class=""><br class="">But yes - as someone mentioned the Tiananmen Square events of June 1989 was <br class="">an earlier example of citizen journalism - and worldwide student activism. <br class="">Although not many students had internet access, many used telephone links <br class="">from around the world to dial in and jam China's "dob in a protester" <br class="">hotline set up by the government.<br class=""><br class="">There was also a substantial global network on line of key rainforest <br class="">activists and organisations by 1987, with capabilities to organise worldwide <br class="">protests.<br class=""><br class="">Ian Peter<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class="">internet-history@postel.org<br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>