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

[John Day]

;-)  I remember that Russian coup. Hilarious.  What a joke.

For anyone who had read Luttwack’s Coup d’etat: A Practical Handbook, 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.  ;-)

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.  ;-)


> On Dec 31, 2015, at 17:05, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
> 
> Seems like there were a few parallel initiatives underway in late 1980's 
> early 1990's - the one I remember was Glasnet from 1991
> 
> http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/telecomm/nato/zaytsev.html
> 
> And its hard to forget the excitement of "The Tanks are coming, The Tanks 
> are coming" newsgroup entries of August 1991 carried on APC networks at the 
> time the tanks moved into Red Square.
> 
> But yes - as someone mentioned the Tiananmen Square events of June 1989 was 
> an earlier example of citizen journalism - and worldwide student activism. 
> Although not many students had internet access, many used telephone links 
> from around the world to dial in and jam China's "dob in a protester" 
> hotline set up by the government.
> 
> There was also a substantial global network on line of key rainforest 
> activists and organisations by 1987, with capabilities to organise worldwide 
> protests.
> 
> Ian Peter
> 
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