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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, December 26, 2005 12:38:55 am | by DavidHallett | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Friday, December 23, 2005 1:29:15 pm | by WikiWord | Revert |
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-An international network of [BBS]es which exchanged mail and public messages over dialup connections. For many years FidoNet WAS
the online community; the internet
existed, but was expensive and/or difficult to get onto.
+An international network of [BBS]es which exchanged mail and public messages over dialup connections. For many years FidoNet __was__
the online community; the InterNet
existed, but was expensive and/or difficult to get onto.
-FidoNet started to die off once the internet
got popular. By somewhere around 1996, Windows came with built-in networking and web browser
(installed by default) and probably the suckiest terminal program on the planet (not installed by default), which didn't help the situation.
+FidoNet started to die off once the InterNet
got popular. By somewhere around 1996, [
Windows]
came with built-in networking and WebBrowser
(installed by default) and probably the suckiest terminal program on the planet (not installed by default), which didn't help the situation.
-The few BBSes
who bothered to keep running dropped off after y2k because most of the software and many of the underlying file formats were not 'y2k ready'. Dates folded back to 1900, entire packets of new messages were tossed (''refers to the action of placing incoming mail in the right areas'') and immediately expired. It just stopped being fun after that.
+The few [BBS]es
who bothered to keep running dropped off after y2k because most of the [
software|Software]
and many of the underlying file formats were not 'y2k ready'. Dates folded back to 1900, entire packets of new messages were tossed (''refers to the action of placing incoming mail in the right areas'') and immediately expired. It just stopped being fun after that.
It's still around, though.
