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From: George Musk <grgmusk@skiff.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: BBSes & dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:58:49 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:47:37 +0000, Ant wrote:

> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Which? Where? List please!

Maybe https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/?s=fidonet