[ih] How the Soviet Union Sent Its First Man to the Internet in 1982

[Larry press]

> And in 1991, there were already a few hundred users connected to the Unix
network in the USSR.

That network played a role in carrying information into and out of the SU
and within the SU during the Soviet coup attempt:

http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html

I stumbled into to it after co-chairing an HCI conference in Moscow.

Was this the first instance of network-based citizen journalism?

Larry
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