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Kremvax

Index Kremvax

Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. [1]

16 relations: April Fools' Day, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, DEMOS (ISP), Eric S. Raymond, Foobar, Hoax, Jargon File, Konstantin Chernenko, Moscow, Moscow Kremlin, Piet Beertema, RELCOM, Soviet Union, Usenet, Vadim Antonov, VAX.

April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day is an annual celebration in some European and Western countries commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.

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Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research center in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science.

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DEMOS (ISP)

DEMOS (Demos) was the first internet service provider in the USSR.

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Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and open-source software advocate.

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Foobar

The terms foobar, or foo and others are used as placeholder names (also referred to as metasyntactic variables) in computer programming or computer-related documentation.

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Hoax

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.

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Jargon File

The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers.

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Konstantin Chernenko

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (p, 24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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Moscow Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin (p), usually referred to as the Kremlin, is a fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River to the south, Saint Basil's Cathedral and Red Square to the east, and the Alexander Garden to the west.

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Piet Beertema

Piet Beertema (born 22 October 1943 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch Internet pioneer.

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RELCOM

RELCOM or Relcom (РЕЛКОМ, Релком), an acronym for "RELiable COMmunications" is a computer network in Russia.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Vadim Antonov

Vadim Antonov (Антонов Вадим Геннадьевич) born May 25, 1965 is a Russian-American software engineer and entrepreneur.

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VAX

VAX is a discontinued instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the mid-1970s.

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Redirects here:

Kgbvax, Kremvax hoax, Moskvax.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax

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