Re: Speaking of BBS's...

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

<noone@nowhere.net> wrote in message 3B961F1B.81D00342@nowhere.net">news:3B961F1B.81D00342@nowhere.net...
> OK, I'm bound to get flamed for this, but what is/was Fidonet?
>
> I am a long time computer user, but I never really did internet or news
> group until the last few years.  I remember playing with Telnet hopping
> from computer to computer back in 92 or so, just to see how far around
> the world I could get.  It was all menu driven Unix anon logins.  I
> didn't understand the technology then.  I only BBSed locally.  (Geez, we
> had about a dozen BBS's back then.)  I always wanted my own BBS just to
> play LORD.  :)  Anyone still have that door running?  I still have two
> custom mazes that I created.  :)
>
> Thankx,
> Ed
>

If I recall, Fidonet was a precursor to Usenet. You would post messages
on your local BBS and the messages would be uploaded during the night
and your responses from the previous day would be downloaded.
That is what I recall of such relay type systems of the 80's.

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