What BBS do you go to for relay feeds like RetroNet, Cyber-Net,
Fidonet, etc.?
reddit / bbs

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blakespot · 2019-05-15 19:58

Black Flag covers these things, but it's a little heavy on the
(lovely, but slow @ 9600) ANSI and so does Byte Exchange, but it has a
menu system that I can't navigate with any of the retro terminal
program I've tried (on DOS PC, Apple II, Amiga), so... Thanks!

What are you favorite of these networks, also? How often do they
update?

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cloverskull · 2019-05-15 20:58

Black Flag has an amiga style ascii theme, which is much faster, and
it's what I use.

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sacrilegious · 2019-05-16 12:03

For the uninitiated, what do you mean by relay feeds?

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auric0m · 2019-05-16 15:29

it's how we did forums and email before the 'internet' -- you would
post your stuff to one of the nets (fidonet was the one i used the
most).. this would do a daily dump to another node, which would dump
its stuff and what was uploaded to it to the next node, etc. etc.
until it 'relayed' to all the nodes.. so emails (we didn't quite call
them that -- the details are vague -- i'm old and it's a dim memory)
and stuff would sometimes take a few days to reach their recipient.


IIRC, fidonet was the largest and most popular and still operates
today:  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet](https://en.wikipedia.o
rg/wiki/FidoNet)

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