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This nOde
last updated August 30th,
2001
and is permanently morphing...
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Unlike the Internet,
most BBSs were self-contained islands, incapable of connecting with
any other BBS to forward or receive messages.
This situation began to
change in the late '80s with the advent of shoestring
networks,
like
FidoNet,
in which participating
BBSs
were programmed to exchange files during off-peak phone
times;
though immensely successful given their modest infrastructure, such BBS
networks have largely been absorbed into
Internet
in recent years.
Tom Jenkins, inventor of FidoNet, had a connection
to the early eighties San Francisco
punk
scene.
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