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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

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