Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by chupasaurus on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:22AM
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Outside of academics [jk: and KGB] no one in USSR had an access to the Internet.
Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by midasuni on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @01:25AM
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In the 1980s the internet was hardly in every home globally either.
Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by chupasaurus on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:50AM
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The difference is that there was a dozen of scientific institutes and that was it. I.e. there was no Internet connectivity in my city (12th by population in Russia at the time) until 1994.
Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by midasuni on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:51AM
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I wonder how that would compare to South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, etc
In SA our office DSL in 2010 had a cap of 500MB a month.
Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by ubermonkey on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:19PM
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Oddly, one of the sites I did actually correspond with online at the time was a university in Moscow. I had a job working for a grant in cross-cultural communication that used a sort of online model UN simulation with teams spread all over. It was pretty neat.
The older I get the more astounded I am that our friendship with Andrei and Volodya happened at all, and the more regret I have that none of us retained any way to contact each other later. It was 1991. I was the only one of us to have an email address at the time.