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   Dallas Hinton:   
      
   DH> The work done by Tom Jennings in 1983-84 resulted in a   
   DH> bulletin board system (BBS) called "Fido because the   
   DH> assorted hardware together was a real mongrel". The   
   DH> software linkage between 2 systems became a network and   
   DH> spawned the name FidoNet.   
      
   Indeed, FidoNet started as a network of BBSes, with the   
   necessary extensions for semi-automated article propagation.   
      
   DH> The use of 2 capital letters is correct and is a (now   
   DH> expired) trademark.  The program has also been called   
   DH> FIDONET (by Ben Baker) but that wasn't what was   
   DH> trademarked by Tom.   
      
   This may have been due to a convention or limitation of a   
   case-insensitive file system, cf. lowercase program names in   
   Linux in spite of its case-sensitive file system.   
      
   DH> Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet and personal knowledge from   
   communications with Tom and others involved in the creation of FidoNet.   
      
   Since you wrote it in a single long line, I for a moment   
   thought that was such a great page on Wikipedia documenting   
   personal knowledge of FidoNet (-: But of course personal   
   communication with a carrier of such personal knowledge is   
   even more interesting and pleasing.  Is there a way to ask   
   an autograph over FidoNet?  Should be an auto-ASCII-graph,   
   probably.   
      
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