On April 1, 1984 Piet Beertema posted that the Soviet Union was going to join Usenet. The post was to have come from Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The Kremlin Usenet site was to be named Kremvax. Year’s later Vadim Antonov had a subdomain placed on the first legitimate Soviet Usenet site - kremvax.demos.su showing that the April Fools’ Day prank had a lasting impact.
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On April 1, 1984 Piet Beertema posted that the Soviet Union was going to join Usenet. The post was to have come from Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The Kremlin Usenet site was to be named Kremvax. Year’s later Vadim Antonov had a subdomain placed on the first legitimate Soviet Usenet site - kremvax.demos.su showing that the April Fools’ Day prank had a lasting impact.
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