Re: Re: Internet and FTN   
     By: Dreamer to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Oct 11 2012 05:15 pm   
      
    > All of the stories from those days are extremely fascinating reads.  I    
    > was just getting into BBSing around 92, and while I was extremely active    
    > in the local networks, I never bothered with Fidonet, and didn't "waste"    
    > my money on magazines.  When I started looking back at what all was    
    > happening in those years, it's astounding.   
      
   My BBS and a local othernet got coverage in a regional newspaper, an article   
   written about us and published in the National Enquirer, and phone calls from   
   the Secret Service after one of our callers skipped the country after the   
   local PD had confiscated his passport. As a 20-something running a BBS out of   
   his house before most people had even heard of the internet, it was pretty   
   exciting.    
      
   Looking back, I wish I saved the Enquirer article. If anyone has the Enquirer   
   with the photoshopped photo of Fabio and Rosanne Barr in bed together, please   
   let me know.   :)   
      
   --pF   
      
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