Subj : perl files for fidonet
To   : Russ Johnson
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Thu Jun 21 2001 11:59 pm

Hi Russ.

20-Jun-01 17:12:32, Russ Johnson wrote to Jasen Betts


 >> how do you figure that, the internet's been around longer than
 >> fidonet, by a few years, it's just only recently become popular.

 RJ> The ARPAnet existed long before Fidonet, which is also a precursor
 RJ> to the Internet.

 RJ> The public internet didn't exist until the 80's. Prior to that, it
 RJ> was a private network. In many ways, the only access people had to
 RJ> it was through fidonet.

Fidonet didn't exist until 1982.

 -=> Bye <=-

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