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Re: Encryption in Fiction



I just reread Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth.

Mentioned in it is "ShipNet" -- an anonymous NetNews onboard that
discusses a possible mutiny.


One wonders if ACC was reading Usenet from Sri Lanka when he wrote this
in 1986. I've since heard that he had a private Internet feed that
existed years before the rest of the country's. Wonder if it's true ;-|

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