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Whats FidoNet?

April 26, 2017fidonet

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Whats FidoNet?

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A. The Wikipedia article on it is quite comprehensive. FidoNet started off in the US back in the ’80s as an inter-BBS communication network. It’s quite a separate entity from the Internet, and has been largely superceded by the Internet nowadays. In Russia though, it has ended up being widely used for a far longer period than in most other countries, and is still going strong in 2008. However, you don’t actually need to know any of the technical details about FidoNet in order to post to the fido7.zx.spectrum group. This is because you can post to the FidoNet groups via the Internet. In Western Europe in 2008 for example, posting via the Internet will typically be the only option available.