FidoNet

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= a point-to-point and store-and-forward email WAN which uses modems on the direct-dial telephone network


URL = http://www.fidonet.org/ Wikipedia


Description

""FidoNet is a point-to-point and store-and-forward email WAN which uses modems on the direct-dial telephone network. It was developed in 1984, and has over 20,000 public nodes worldwide.

"FidoNet has been owned and operated primarily by end-users and hobbyists more than by computer professionals. Therefore, social and political issues arose in FidoNet far faster and more seriously than might be expected by those raised in other network cultures." (http://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt , 1992)


Status

Sascha Meinrath:

"It's on the decline, but still alive (fidonet.org I think). The decentralization is similar to some of the community LAN and wireless technologies, but I wouldn't say Fidonet was a precursor (technologically speaking). Its hayday was 1980s/90s, but the Web pretty much crushed it over time." (email, March 2011)