On Tuesday, April 27, 2004 at 9:04:32 PM UTC-4, TheHairyBeast wrote:   
   > I was just telneting to a few old bbs sites, And I see there is a new "net"   
   > type system called syncronet or something like it.   
   >   
   >    And It got me thinking. What ever happened to The Old school bbs nets.   
   > like Fidonet, wwiv-net, C-net, and so on... Did any of them survive the big   
   > bbs crash of 96/97 ?   
   >   
   > I ran a BBS from 1992-95 on WWIV 4.23 On a Ibm pc/xt with a 20meg harddrive   
   > at 2400baud.   
   >    I loved it. The only reason I didn't run it on a commodore was I didn't   
   > want to tie it up! The old XT I got from another Sysop who had upgraded to a   
   > 386sx16 for $75.00 It was ready to go including the bbs software. What A   
   > deal!   I had wwiv-net, and fidonet subs, but lost track of all of it in   
   > 1998 when I got a modern computer (5x86 133mhz) And hopped on the Web   
   > bandwagon.   
   >   
   > Any other Sysop's Out there?   
   >   
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   Came across this topic when searching for Fidonet. Yea it's still going. Mines   
   been up since 1991. https://www.fidosysop.org or the bbs direct login   
   http://bbs.fidosysop.org folks still love the old mutt.. :)   
      
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