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The Horny Goat <
lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:00:12 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
> <
dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>>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.
So FIDO is playing dead but can still sit up and fetch?
-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
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