FYI: Important Internet anniversary

[Max Hauser]

20 years ago today Piet Beertema in the Netherlands posted his famous 1984
Chernenko / kremvax hoax to public newsgroups. This episode and
its even more remarkable follow-ups are well remembered by those who saw
them at the time (also by many system administrators and to the few people
who actually study Internet history). If you do not know the hoax or the
follow-ups and are curious, I posted a summary and links to comp.misc a
couple of days ago.

 

[Klm]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:48:46 -0800, "Max Hauser"
<maxREMOVE@THIStdl.com> wrote:

If you do not know the hoax or the
follow-ups and are curious, I posted a summary and links to comp.misc a
couple of days ago.

Can you post the links again in this thread? Missed your original
post.

 

[Max Hauser]

Re 1984 kremvax/Chernenko hoax and its two major follow-ups:

It's a story (from additional sources) as well as links, posted to comp.misc
and soc.history 31 Mar 04 and probably still accessible there on many
newsreaders; but if that doesn't work, I suggest going to Google
(groups.google.com) or another public archive and finding either of those
newsgroups. That should be accessible to any WWW user. comp.misc seems to
get very little traffic so the message should be near the top.


"Klm" <klmok88@yahoo.com> wrote:

Can you post the links again in this thread? Missed your original
post.

 

[JeffM]

Can you post the links again in this thread?
Klm

http://groups.google.com/groups?&threadm=106l73qr9ntthf4%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26safe%3Doff%26q%3DChernenko%2Bkremvax%2Bhoax%26btnG%3DSearch