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[ih] Another history question -- Tiananmen Square
- Subject: [ih] Another history question -- Tiananmen Square
- From: LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:44:33 -0500
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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