Re: Re: slightly OT: what ever happend to fidonet?   
     By: fidosysop@gmail.com to TheHairyBeast on Mon Oct 15 2018 06:52 am   
      
    > 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 bi   
    > > bbs crash of 96/97 ?   
    > >   
    > > I ran a BBS from 1992-95 on WWIV 4.23 On a Ibm pc/xt with a 20meg harddriv   
    > > 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   
    > > 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?   
    > >   
    > >   
    > >   
    > > --   
    > >          From The Desk Of Mr.FixIt   
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    > > Serving The Vw Community Since 2002   
    >    
    > Came across this topic when searching for Fidonet. Yea it's still going. Min   
    > been up since 1991. https://www.fidosysop.org or the bbs direct login   
    > http://bbs.fidosysop.org folks still love the old mutt.. :)   
    >    
      
   Well, FidoNet is still alive and well. WWIVnet is also alive and well, so is   
   GateNet, ACnet.  I am GateNet @1 and ACnet @1.   
      
   There are loads of nets out there and BBSs that have been around a long time.   
   My BBS for instance has been online since 1980. First started on a Commodore   
   PET 4016 with 2 Commodore 8050 duel drives and 2 Commodore SFD-1001 drives and   
   a 300bps modem. telnet://thegatebbs.sytes.net (port 666) and   
   telnet://thegateb.synchro.net (port 23)   
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