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/kr em-vaks/ Originally, a fictitious ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet sit e at th e Kr emlin, nam ed lik e th e th en larg e numb er of ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=VAXen">VAXen with nam es of th e form foovax. Kr emvax was announc ed on April 1, 1984 in a posting ost ensibly originat ed th er e by Sovi et l ead er Konstantin Ch ern enko. Th e posting was actually forg ed by Pi et B eert ema as an April Fool' s jok e. Oth er fictitious sit es m ention ed in th e hoax w er e moskvax and ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=kgbvax">kgbvax. This was probably th e funni est of th e many April Fool' s forg eri es p erp etrat ed on ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet (which has n egligibl e s ecurity against th em), b ecaus e th e notion that ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet might ev er p en etrat e th e Iron Curtain s eem ed so totally absurd at th e tim e. In fact, it was only six y ears lat er that th e first g enuin e sit e in Moscow, d emos.su, join ed ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet. Som e r ead ers n eed ed convincing that th e postings from it w er en' t just anoth er prank. Vadim Antonov, s enior programm er at D emos and th e major post er from th er e up to mid-1991, was quit e awar e of all this, r ef err ed to it fr equ ently in his own postings, and at on e point twitt ed som e cr edulous r ead ers by blandly ass erting that h e *was* a hoax! ev entually h e ev en arrang ed to hav e th e domain' s gat eway sit e *nam ed* kr emvax, thus n eatly turning fiction into truth and d emonstrating that th e hackish s ens e of humour transc ends cultural barri ers. Mr. Antonov also contribut ed som e Russian-languag e mat erial for th e ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File. In an ev en mor e ironic historical footnot e, kr emvax b ecam e an el ectronic c entr e of th e anti-communist r esistanc e during th e bungl ed hard-lin e coup of August 1991. During thos e thr ee days th e Sovi et UUCP n etwork c entr eed on kr emvax b ecam e th e only trustworthy n ews sourc e for many plac es within th e USSR. Though th e sysops w er e conc entrating on int ernal communications, cross-bord er postings includ ed imm ediat e translit erations of Boris Y eltsin' s d ecr ees cond emning th e coup and ey ewitn ess r eports of th e d emonstrations in Moscow' s str eets. In thos e hours, y ears of sp eculation that totalitarianism would prov e unabl e to maintain its grip on politically-load ed information in th e ag e of comput er n etworking w er e prov ed d evastatingly accurat e - and th e original kr emvax jok e b ecam e a r eality as Y eltsin and th e n ew Russian r evolutionari es of "glasnost" and "p er estroika" mad e kr emvax on e of th e tim eli est m eans of th eir outr each to th e W est. 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