kremvax

/krem-vaks/ Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at theKremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXenwith names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Sovietleader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forgedby Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitioussites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. Thiswas probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeriesperpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security againstthem), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetratethe Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time.

In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuinesite in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readersneeded convincing that the postings from it weren't justanother prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos andthe major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware ofall this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, andat one point twitted some credulous readers by blandlyasserting that he *was* a hoax!

Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site*named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth anddemonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcendscultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed someRussian-language material for the Jargon File.

In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became anelectronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during thebungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those threedays the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became theonly trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR.Though the sysops were concentrating on internalcommunications, cross-border postings included immediatetransliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning thecoup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow'sstreets. In those hours, years of speculation thattotalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip onpolitically-loaded information in the age of computernetworking were proved devastatingly accurate - and theoriginal kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the newRussian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" madekremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to theWest.

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释义	kremvax kremvax /krem-vaks/ Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at theKremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXenwith names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Sovietleader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forgedby Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitioussites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. Thiswas probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeriesperpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security againstthem), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetratethe Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuinesite in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readersneeded convincing that the postings from it weren't justanother prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos andthe major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware ofall this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, andat one point twitted some credulous readers by blandlyasserting that he was a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway sitenamed kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth anddemonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcendscultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed someRussian-language material for the Jargon File. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became anelectronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during thebungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those threedays the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became theonly trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR.Though the sysops were concentrating on internalcommunications, cross-border postings included immediatetransliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning thecoup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow'sstreets. In those hours, years of speculation thattotalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip onpolitically-loaded information in the age of computernetworking were proved devastatingly accurate - and theoriginal kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the newRussian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" madekremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to theWest.
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