Subj : Re: 40 years, and counting!
To   : Alejandro Filimonchuk
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Mon Apr 22 2024 07:48 am

Alejandro,
 
AF> Yeah, of course you are right... but anyways, here we are, inviting
AF> people, telling them about fidonet ("first social network" ;)... there
AF> are a lot of people interested in at least know a little bit about that
AF> cool and decentralized thing called "fido"... I swear
 
Fidonet was bigger at a time than the internet and was even compared to it. We 
had an extensive school spin-off whose history is recorded nowhere ... 
connected computers at school? It was Fidonet ...
 
I learned a load of massive cool stuff behind the keyboard of my PC ... made 
friends, lost friends, wrote obituaries for people whom I never met but made an 
impact on my life ...
 
A true social network (although the bit-crunchers will deny it), not just 
something where people will lurk from behind the anonimity of a keyboard ... 
with a few exceptions... It's not about 15 second dance-move videos.
 
 \%/@rd
 
BTW, Z4 badly needs to work on its zone-status ... the nodelist-segment is way 
overdue ... ZC-activity and presence is way overdue. The RCs need to act and 
the nodes need to push the RCs to do so...
 
There's a job to be done, and when that job gets done, Fidonet stays alive !

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