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Polish Man wakes up from 19-year coma

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A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed.

Railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65, fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988.

"Now I see people on the streets with mobile phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin," he told Polish television.

He credits his survival to his wife, Gertruda, who cared for him.

Doctors gave him only two or three years to live after the accident.

"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," he told news channel TVN24.

She is reported to have moved her husband every hour to prevent bed sores.

Fall of communists

"I cried a lot, and I prayed a lot," Mrs Grzebski said on Polsat television.

"Those who came to see us kept asking: 'When is he going to die?' But he's not dead."

When Mr Grzebski had his accident Poland was still ruled by its last communist leader, Wojciech Jaruzelski.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Mr Grzebski said.

The following year's elections ushered in eastern Europe's first post-communist government.

Poland joined the Nato alliance in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.

"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning," said Mr Grzebski.

"I've got nothing to complain about."

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Reminds me of that movie, Goodbye Lenin.

Still, that'd be a huge shock, communism or not. I mean, there was no widespread internet back then, personal computers were just getting started, car phones were rare, to say nothing of cell phones. Hell, I was born in 1988, my entire life has taken place in the time this guy's been in a coma.

It'd be like teleporting to the future. Plus communism is gone on top of all that. I hope he likes this crazy world we have.

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I think the shock of waking up into todays society with all the abundant technology would send me back into the coma.

Not really, cell phones were starting to come around then. Granted they were enormous and not many people had them. Also computers were starting to boom and alot of families had them. People were starting to get connected to the internet. I mean i'd be more shocked about the fall of communism if I was him. The technology was expected.

And most 65 year olds dont care to much about technology.

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What are you talking about? People did have interent in 88.

The difference between the access people had in 88 and the modern internet is so staggering that they can barely be compared to each other. That, and only a very small number of people actually used it. The only other people who knew much about it just saw the movie "War Games"

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The difference between the access people had in 88 and the modern internet is so staggering that they can barely be compared to each other. That, and only a very small number of people actually used it. The only other people who knew much about it just saw the movie "War Games"

Dude in '88 people did know what the internet was I got it only a couple years after that. My point is just that the communist regime falling is a little more shocking then OMG LOL FREE PORN AND FORUMS!!!!

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Dude in '88 people did know what the internet was I got it only a couple years after that.

Growth

The network gained a public face in the 1990s. On August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN.

An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW based upon HyperCard. It was eventually replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. In 1993 the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois released version 1.0 of Mosaic, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 the word "Internet" was coming into common daily usage, frequently misused to refer to the World Wide Web.

Meanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks, such as FidoNet, have remained separate) During the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew by 100% per year, with a brief period of explosive growth in 1996 and 1997.[3] This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network.

Sure, communications between computers has existed since the late 50's but the global scale is a very new development.

Even when my brother was in High School the internet was mostly BBS's and IRC's

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The only other people who knew much about it just saw the movie "War Games"

just have to put it out there that that movie is amazing

You guys missed my point. I was just giving an example, and seeing as I was using a computer then, and the article had a lot about technology related things in it and about people complaining i decided to use technology as the example. I'm not saying the new tech is a bigger shock than the fall of communism.

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