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Damn, that was a good read. Thanks for sharing. It's rare to reevaluate ourselves and to see ourselves in a new light, and it sounds like you got a solid, groun
by inanutshellus 4y ago
Damn, that was a good read. Thanks for sharing. It's rare to reevaluate ourselves and to see ourselves in a new light, and it sounds like you got a solid, grounded experience that has since anchored your perspective towards one of appreciation for what you/we have. Pretty cool gift.
- ubermonkey 4y agoThanks, man. 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.
- chupasaurus 4y agoOutside of academics [jk: and KGB] no one in USSR had an access to the Internet.
- midasuni 4y agoIn the 1980s the internet was hardly in every home globally either.
- chupasaurus 4y agoThe 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.
- midasuni 4y agoI 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.
- ubermonkey 4y agoOddly, 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.