16 Feb
1999
16 Feb
'99
10:29 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Russ Blakeman wrote:
No but they were all steps in what makes the net what
it is.
There was certainly user migration, and lots of content migration (mostly
porn and micro software), but as far as the *structure* of the net goes,
BBS's had virtually zero effect on making the net what it is.
But FidoNet was pretty cool. It never had the potential to compete
against a real-time net, but it enabled people to have their own simple
store and forward network without having to run uucp on a Unix box.
I never got into FidoNet, though. I was able to get my 286 box running
Microport Unix and acting as multitasking Usenet leaf node in the
mid-80's, and that seemed more interesting than FidoNet at the time.
-- Doug