Fidonet vs. the Internet reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Warpslide · 2022-08-02 00:17 Well that was neat seeing my name on Leo’s screen when he was scrolling through the nodelist… :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- temotodochi · 2022-08-02 00:40 Fidonet was fun to set up. I was part of a network which had internet node in it so we could send emails. But... It took two days to send and get a reply, but it was useful anyway. It was different back then. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denzuko · 2022-08-02 01:16 Yeah still remember doing a ton of FREQs for [ALLFILES.ZIP](https://ALLFILES.ZIP) and [00index.zip](https://00index.zip) files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Torschlusspaniker · 2022-08-02 02:14 That is a face I have not seen in a long time. poor one out for techtv. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BlindGuyAndKarr · 2022-08-02 14:39 Were you around for arc v zip or was that before your time? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kodiak01 · 2022-08-02 15:05 LHA forever! :P Wasn't on Fido, but remember the whole SEA vs Katz lawsuits back when I ran WWIVNet @4352 in the late 80s and early 90s. Pretty much everyone switched to .ZIP as soon as it was released as a collective middle finger to SEA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BlindGuyAndKarr · 2022-08-02 15:14 Yes and now that you're a bit older how do you feel about the whole mess? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kodiak01 · 2022-08-02 15:17 Should I feel anything at this point? I was running a BBS on a Hyundai (yes, they used to sell computers in the US) 286-10 with a 2400 baud modem and a ST277R-1 during my high school days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BlindGuyAndKarr · 2022-08-02 15:27 Well considering SEA was literally A Guy and his Wife, and Katz framed the whole thing as 'widdle man vs big corporation.' Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXCd2EATSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu7sY1LOWiI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kweiske · 2022-08-02 16:00 Mine,too! Waiting for the uptick in calls - wish they'd called out that you can telnet or browse to modern BBSes. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- digitlman · 2022-08-02 16:41 "echonet"? Leo means "echomail". "Western Digital"? I think that guy meant "Western Electric". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denzuko · 2022-08-02 19:03 there was other echonets (e.g. store and forward) than fidonet. Just FIDO sent most of the standards and was the easiest for the general consumer to get into. ARPANET (pre IP/NCP), uunet, and Bitnet were restricted to academic and enterprise businesses, and costly subscriptions, investment in hardware, plus the fees tacked on by telcos. While three other FTN style echo nets do come to mine mainly as file distribution backbones one I know is still around besides FIDO/Fsx, those being DoomNet (doom wad file sharing), AdaptX filebone (which I think walnut creek cd's was involved with, might be wrong here), and Scinet (scientific research, data, and nasa transmissions) But yeah, hearing some of that convo in the vid was funny on a boomer vs zoomer level. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2022-08-02 20:24 I wish he would have said that there are many BBSes available via the Internet now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denzuko · 2022-08-03 04:15 I'd just missed it mostly. Supported both on my board when I got into intel systems but the legal battle happened around the time I was getting into computers on c64 and tandys. But do remember some of the flack from zines and posts of the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denzuko · 2022-08-03 04:19 Meh.. They joker about it a little. They are right though just like HAMs we sysops would be the ones to revive the internet along side the cockroaches if anything happened. Hell when we start getting into stellar travel I can see us using echonets like fidonet for communications.