ACMS, Questions on Internet History. (fwd)

[John Foust]

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