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|    August Abolins to Kurt Weiske    |
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      MSGID: 1:153/757.21@fidonet 0f4bf51a       REPLY: 1289.chat@1:218/700 29db26a4       PID: OpenXP/5.0.57 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0500       Hello Kurt!               KW> I know Adam Curry was slightly leading-edge in the '90s..        KW> A nodelist lookup doesn't show anything.              Yeah.. It seems that anyone who may have attained any kind of        media status, seems to have little to nothing to say about        Fidonet today. Leo Laporte (of TWiT podcast fame) seems to        have had a Fidonet node for a couple of years 1986-1988 only.                      KW> There have been some documentary efforts, we should really        KW> start capturing more of our history. Sysops have been        KW> passing away for some time.              The book Modem World - A Prehistory of Social Media - by Kevin        Driscoll, does a fine job analysing and presenting the matrix        of online development including a modicum of reference to        Fidonet and how, where and when it fit in the timeline of        things.              Isn't there a wiki page about Fidonet that seems to be the        "documentary efforts" that you speak of?              Perhaps there could be a better effort to announce that the        Fidonet universe is still alive and kicking and *not* be spoken        of in the past-tense all the time when someone "reviews"        Fidonet.       --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.57        * Origin: Mobile? Join CHAT here: https://tinyurl.com/y5k7tsla (1:153/757.21)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/260 129/305       SEEN-BY: 134/100 153/0 143 149 757 802 7715 203/0 218/0 1 700 840       SEEN-BY: 218/860 870 221/0 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 307 317       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 5832 280/464 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 2320/105 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 153/757 280/464 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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