Subj : Re: slightly OT: what ever happend to fidonet?
To   : TheHairyBeast
From : fidosysop@gmail.com
Date : Mon Oct 15 2018 06:52 am

On Tuesday, April 27, 2004 at 9:04:32 PM UTC-4, TheHairyBeast wrote:
> I was just telneting to a few old bbs sites, And I see there is a new "net"
> type system called syncronet or something like it.
>
>    And It got me thinking. What ever happened to The Old school bbs nets.
> like Fidonet, wwiv-net, C-net, and so on... Did any of them survive the big
> bbs crash of 96/97 ?
>
> I ran a BBS from 1992-95 on WWIV 4.23 On a Ibm pc/xt with a 20meg harddrive
> at 2400baud.
>    I loved it. The only reason I didn't run it on a commodore was I didn't
> want to tie it up! The old XT I got from another Sysop who had upgraded to a
> 386sx16 for $75.00 It was ready to go including the bbs software. What A
> deal!   I had wwiv-net, and fidonet subs, but lost track of all of it in
> 1998 when I got a modern computer (5x86 133mhz) And hopped on the Web
> bandwagon.
>
> Any other Sysop's Out there?
>
>
>
> --
>          From The Desk Of Mr.FixIt
>                              At
>     WWW.THERUSTYRABBIT.COM
> Serving The Vw Community Since 2002

Came across this topic when searching for Fidonet. Yea it's still going. Mines 
been up since 1991. https://www.fidosysop.org or the bbs direct login 
http://bbs.fidosysop.org folks still love the old mutt.. :)
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)

.