On 7/8/16, Rayzer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
On 07/08/2016 12:06 AM, grarpamp wrote:
And one nutbag properly arrested... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebv-B1B3LI0
As with the other, seems this guy just chose a nutty outfit, thus making the interaction quite remarkable.
The first time I ever saw Telnet /(the occupation of Courant Physics Institute NYU during the Cambodia/Laos invasion student strike... ALMOST got to take a fireaxe to an Arpanet machine!)/ I thought Jeez! If you could get US kids chatting with Vietnamese kids the government could
International telnet / ntalk / IRC from the student computer labs / dialup... this was a thing in the late 80's and 90's, way before AIM / ICQ / facebook. Not encrypted, not really anonymized, probably not even tapped, and personal, as opposed being any part at all to news media with their wire. Though of course western europe and a few select institutions outside were the only ones reasonably well connected and free and english speaking on the other end... germany, england, finns, brit colonies. Scanned pictures then, and now video transcends written language, just a mouse click away.