2013-05-25T21:12:23-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10155&Focus=306477#Comment_306477 2011-08-16T20:16:36-07:00 2013-05-25T21:12:23-07:00 Vornaskotti http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6665

I remember the weird high of talking to Russian people via a modem and a BBS in the 80s, talking from Finland via a little box called a "modem", that was a secret between me, people in ...

Then some of them started to talk about tanks.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/about-the-net/Usenet/soviet.coup]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10155&Focus=333719#Comment_333719 2012-06-06T23:39:30-07:00 2013-05-25T21:12:23-07:00 Frowardd http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10391

My school covered little enough american history let alone russian history, and this is complete news to me! here's a vid (thanks wikipedia!) with the fellow who wrote the article you linked: How ...

here's a vid (thanks wikipedia!) with the fellow who wrote the article you linked: How the internet saved Russia from the hardliners]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10155&Focus=333722#Comment_333722 2012-06-07T01:01:11-07:00 2013-05-25T21:12:23-07:00 Vornaskotti http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6665

Back at the time it was massively awesome and interesting to follow this thing unfold. There were some BBS's that polled information from usenet, and I had been talking with people who had a net ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10155&Focus=333724#Comment_333724 2012-06-07T01:19:08-07:00 2013-05-25T21:12:23-07:00 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6726

Not quite the same thing, but I'm reminded of back in '99 when I first got onto the net. I used to visit a website run by a guy in Serbia. Then the Kosovo war broke out and the site went into ...

He ended up coming through it OK, but it sort of brought home to me just how connected the internet was making us all.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10155&Focus=333728#Comment_333728 2012-06-07T03:44:26-07:00 2013-05-25T21:12:23-07:00 Kosmopolit http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346

I knew people who, just after Tiananmen were, chatting online with a friend in Beijing who excused himself for a minute to answer the door. Last I heard, which was several years later, the Chinese ...

Last I heard, which was several years later, the Chinese friend had never been heard from again.]]>