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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
kremvax
/krem?vaks/, n.
[from the then-large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form
foovax] Originally, a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on
April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader
Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as
an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were
moskvax and kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April
Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible security
against them), because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron
Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time.
In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow,
demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings
from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at
Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of
all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point
twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he was a hoax!
Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site named
kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into fact and demonstrating that the
hackish sense of humor transcends cultural barriers. [Mr. Antonov also
contributed the Russian-language material for this lexicon. ?ESR]
In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic
center of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup
of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centered on
kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the
USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications,
cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris
Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the
demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation
that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on
politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were
proved devastatingly accurate ? and the original kremvax joke became a
reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of glasnost and
perestroika made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to
the West.
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2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
kremvax
kgbvax
/krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious Usenet site
at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet
VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced
on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by
Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually
forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other
fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and
kgbvax. This was probably the funniest of the many April
Fool's forgeries perpetrated on Usenet (which has negligible
security against them), because the notion that Usenet might
ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at
the time.
In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine
site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers
needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just
another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and
the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of
all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and
at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly
asserting that he *was* a hoax!
Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site
*named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and
demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends
cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some
Russian-language material for the Jargon File.
In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an
electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the
bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three
days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the
only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR.
Though the sysops were concentrating on internal
communications, cross-border postings included immediate
transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the
coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's
streets. In those hours, years of speculation that
totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on
politically-loaded information in the age of computer
networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the
original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new
Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made
kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the
West.
[Jargon File]
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