/krem-vaks/ Originally, a fictitious
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet site at t
he Kremlin, named like t
he t
hen large number of
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=VAXen">VAXen wit
h names of t
he form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated t
here by Soviet leader Konstantin C
hernenko. T
he posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool' s joke. Ot
her fictitious sites mentioned in t
he
hoax were moskvax and
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=kgbvax">kgbvax. T
his was probably t
he funniest of t
he many April Fool' s forgeries perpetrated on
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet (w
hic
h has negligible security against t
hem), because t
he notion t
hat
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet mig
ht ever penetrate t
he Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at t
he time. In fact, it was only six years later t
hat t
he first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Usenet">Usenet. Some readers needed convincing t
hat t
he postings from it weren' t just anot
her prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and t
he major poster from t
here up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all t
his, referred to it frequently in
his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting t
hat
he *was* a
hoax! Eventually
he even arranged to
have t
he domain' s gateway site *named* kremvax, t
hus neatly turning fiction into trut
h and demonstrating t
hat t
he
hackis
h sense of
humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for t
he
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File. In an even more ironic
historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of t
he anti-communist resistance during t
he bungled
hard-line coup of August 1991. During t
hose t
hree days t
he Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became t
he only trustwort
hy news source for many places wit
hin t
he USSR. T
houg
h t
he sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin' s decrees condemning t
he coup and eyewitness reports of t
he demonstrations in Moscow' s streets. In t
hose
hours, years of speculation t
hat totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in t
he age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and t
he original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and t
he new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of t
he timeliest means of t
heir outreac
h to t
he West. [
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File]
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