Post AzRTuwDKs9AkVWSiAa by dec23k@mastodon.ie
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 (DIR) Post #AzQ7WEJa2qj9FyEi0W by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-21T02:47:40Z
       
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       Internet archive has this, 1996, well into gopherspace' demise. https://web.archive.org/web/19961205055944/http://wiretap.spies.com/#gopher
       
 (DIR) Post #AzQ9paDB3chQZvb5zU by brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
       2025-10-21T03:13:29Z
       
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       @tomjennings This is fabulous-- gopher lives!I wish we had a good fidonet archive-- do you have one?
       
 (DIR) Post #AzQOmCM6nNd12BcQyG by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-21T06:01:02Z
       
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       @brewsterkahle No, I have nearly nothing! I was in a very peculiar position on FidoNet. It was far more decentralized than most people realized. There was never any central sites. There was no money at all I mean literally zero. No orgs no institution support. Sysops sometimes saved things, that's it. I think the folks that compiled novelists may have those, they'd tell a quantitative tale. I regret not saving board contents but I never had any institutional connections at any time through the era. It was just me and whatever hard disks I owned. And I had a terrible tape fiasco around 1988, about worst timing possible. Lol, each version of Fido and FidoNet were not archived or under any source code control. It was just how things worked then.  I have version 5, version 12, and none of the 11's. I did lettered subversions, 11a, 11b, etc. The most popular full featured version was 11w (lol), and I don't have source to it.There were probably 50 to 100 released versions of FidoNet, through three or four architectural instances. Net/node, and zone:net/mode then points, then virtual memory scaling (windows buffering) when things could fit in ram.Software as graffiti.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzQOrcu5WASCos6JaC by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-21T06:02:01Z
       
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       @brewsterkahle It's hard to grasp today just how centerless FidoNet was.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzQPo7weGUbNt8C4cy by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-21T06:12:35Z
       
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       @brewsterkahle Archiving FidoNet contents is the same problem as archiving fediverse contents. There's no there, there. Or, it's everywhere at once.  It's an amorphous oscillating blob, lol.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzRTuwDKs9AkVWSiAa by dec23k@mastodon.ie
       2025-10-21T18:33:21Z
       
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       @tomjennings @brewsterkahle There was regular FidoNet, and the FidoNet Technology Networks, each with a parallel and non-conflicting set of zone/region/node numbers. They had echomail too, but they did not propagate it any further than each FTN.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzRz0zrxICe89zpZ9k by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-10-22T00:21:46Z
       
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       @dec23k @brewsterkahle Oh there were dozens or hundreds of separate FidoNets. The US Forestry Service had one! I sold each of them a copy.