[ih] Another history question -- Tiananmen Square

[Larry Sheldon]

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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