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   August Abolins to Kurt Weiske   
   FidoNet remembered on popular podcast by   
   10 Dec 23 19:18:00   
   
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   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.   
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