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On 1/6/2023 10:24 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:00:12 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
> <
dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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>> What If Usenet didn`t work?
>
> Given I had been doing discussion forums on both local bulletin board
> systems and FIDOnet for 5 years before coming onto the internet (I`m
> discussing roughly 1985-90) probably not a whole lot.
>
> FIDOnet still works and is used in some isolated areas but no question
> Usenet and the Internet generally has decimated it.
Wasn`t intended as a serious "What If?". A425 contacted me and asked
that I make a test post for them as they are having trouble regaining
their Usenet access. ;)
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dirty old man.
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