From ckim@uni-hamburg.de Sun Feb 11 22:21:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!ckim From: ckim@uni-hamburg.de (Callum Kim) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb11.222103.2847@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:21:03 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. A well-known underground rockero who had recorded the uncredited guitar solos for the Mexican LP vanished that night. On July 6, 1988, during the Mexican presidential election, the government computers mysteriously crashed: 'se cayó el sistema'. The decoded line for Node 04: 'ORION BUILT A PATCH NOT A STAR.' -- Callum Kim "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Atari Falcon 030 / Linux 1.2.13 From mfournier@kth.se Tue Feb 13 04:28:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!mfournier From: mfournier@kth.se (Marta Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb13.042803.6863@kth.se> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 04:28:03 GMT References: <1996Feb11.222103.2847@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Feb11.222103.2847@uni-hamburg.de>, ckim@uni-hamburg.de (Callum Kim) writes: > The biggest political crisis in modern Mexican history happened on the exact same night Node 04 went dark. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Marta Fournier -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From ooliveira@titech.ac.jp Tue Feb 13 17:57:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!titech!ooliveira From: ooliveira@titech.ac.jp (Olga Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 1988 Mexican election blackout ('se cayó el sistema') and Node 04 Message-ID: <1996Feb13.175703.4308@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 17:57:03 GMT References: <1996Feb11.222103.2847@uni-hamburg.de> <1996Feb13.042803.6863@kth.se> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb13.042803.6863@kth.se>, mfournier@kth.se (Marta Fournier) writes: > Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. Mexico was Node 04. Korea was Node 03. Both had government communication blackouts during major political transitions. -- Olga Oliveira | ooliveira@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: CCE5 136E E0FB 1C9E "Keep the channels open."