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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: BBSes & dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:50:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:13 this Sunday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:28 this Wednesday (GMT):
>> > Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > ...
>> >> Fortunately, I _was_ able to find a BBS, albeit one with ridiculously
>> >> tiny connect-time and message quotas (both posting and reading).
>> >> Still, it was local and fairly inexpensive and it served until a
>> >> dial-up ISP finally made it to my area.
>> >
>> >> It's sort of neat that a BBS still served the same purpose for you:
>> >> connecting you to Usenet. 
>> >
>> >> Hello to any other lurkers reading through a BBS! ;-)
>> >
>> > I never ran into BBSes that had usenet. They did have FidoNet and others!
>> >
>> > Speaking of BBSes, RIP to Ward Christensen who was a BBS inventor and 
>> > architect of our online age at age 78: 
>> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/
>> >:~(
>
>> Fidonet apparently added a USENET link "recently".
>
> Recently? Where? I'd like to see it. I didn't even know FidoNet is still around! :O


Yeah, some of the Fidonet BBS's have it.
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