Subj : Re: slightly OT: what ever happend to fidonet?
To   : fidosysop@gmail.com
From : David Westphalen
Date : Tue Oct 16 2018 08:15 pm

  Re: Re: slightly OT: what ever happend to fidonet?
  By: fidosysop@gmail.com to TheHairyBeast on 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 bi
 > > bbs crash of 96/97 ?
 > >
 > > I ran a BBS from 1992-95 on WWIV 4.23 On a Ibm pc/xt with a 20meg harddriv
 > > 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
 > > 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. Min
 > been up since 1991. https://www.fidosysop.org or the bbs direct login
 > http://bbs.fidosysop.org folks still love the old mutt.. :)
 > 

Well, FidoNet is still alive and well. WWIVnet is also alive and well, so is
GateNet, ACnet.  I am GateNet @1 and ACnet @1.

There are loads of nets out there and BBSs that have been around a long time.
My BBS for instance has been online since 1980. First started on a Commodore
PET 4016 with 2 Commodore 8050 duel drives and 2 Commodore SFD-1001 drives and
a 300bps modem. telnet://thegatebbs.sytes.net (port 666) and
telnet://thegateb.synchro.net (port 23)
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 * Origin: The Gate BBS * Cherryville, NC USA * (1:3634/27)

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