Subj : Re: computers
To   : Nightfox
From : Bf2K+
Date : Mon Jul 22 2024 08:21:10

On 21 Jul 24  17:12:22 Nightfox wrote...

NN>   Re: Re: computers   By: Malvinas to Spectre on Sat Jul 20 2024
NN> 11:30 pm
NN> 
NN>  Ma> This here is really interesting. I remember before 1995 (before
NN>  Ma> Win95), taht BBSs were a common thing, and there was a sort
NN>  Ma> "collective concious" of using BBSs to connect with others, I
NN>  Ma> remember news paper articles about FIDOnet and how that could
NN>  Ma> get you in touch with anyone anywhere in the world, but it
NN>  Ma> wasn't until 1995 (and Win95, indeed...) with IExplroer
NN>  Ma> preinstalled, and the browser war it ensued that *web browsing*
NN>  Ma> (!!) really became something most people became aware of. 
NN> 
NN> ..when most people became aware of FIDONet?  I'm not so sure.  It
NN> seemed that there were a lot of people who bought their first
NN> computer in the mid-90s and were getting on the internet and didn't
NN> really have a knowlege of BBSes.
NN> 
NN> And I think Internet Explorer was included as an optional install in
NN> a Windows 95 add-on, and it came pre-installed in Windows 98.  That
NN> was around the time of the Microsoft anti-trust trial, and Microsoft
NN> tried to say Internet Explorer was integrated into the OS and they
NN> couldn't remove it..
NN> 
NN> Nightfox --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux  * Origin: Digital Distortion:
NN> digdist.synchro.net (21:1/137) 

To which Bf2K+ replies...

I started my BBS on an Atari 8bit machine in Jan 1984. In 1987 (or 88) I
moved it to a PC and joined Fidonet. I shut it down in 1996. Then in
1999, I put it back up on the Atari 8bit platform running on an emulator
in a PC connected to the internet.  It is still running and I added a 2nd
BBS (Synchronet) a couple of months ago.

A8 - Boot Factory 2k+; bfbbs.no-ip.com:8888
Synch - RetroRunning; retrorunning.ddns.net:8880

So I became aware of Fidonet around 1987.

--- RATSoft/FIDO v09.14.95 [JetMail 1.01]
 * Origin: STar Fleet HQ - Real Atari! bbs.sfhqbbs.org:5983 (21:3/171.0)

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