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

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

On 31/12/2015 01:19, Larry press wrote:
> > 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.

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.


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

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.
Read Story 2 from my blog entry: http://stories.onewebday.org/?p=40

Best wishes,

Olivier

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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