ACMS, Questions on Internet History. (fwd)
John Foust
jfoust at threedee.com
Mon May 22 23:54:53 AEST 2000
At 04:39 PM 5/22/00 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> a1 First use of Fido-Net or other BBS using Dial-up messaging ?
> a2 First use of E-MAIL via FidoNet or other BBS ?
> a3 First use of FreeWare/File Distribution via FidoNet or other BBS ?
Tom Jennings, the creator of FidoNet, is still available at
<tomj at wps.com> and there's a history at
http://wps.com/FidoNet/source/Fido-FidoNet/fhist.html.
Tom is now moderating the Dead Media Project at
http://wps.com/dead-media/index.html.
But by no means was FidoNet the first BBS.
- John
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