On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:08:45 GMT, "ameijers"
wrote:

... Speaking of 'remember whens' (in
answer to another posters question about Usenet propogation), does Fidonet
still exist?

I think it does: http://www.fidonet.org/

aem sends.....
(just another old fart who started on Usenet with a text interface and a
green screen, on a hard-wired dumb vt-100 or dialing in to the UNIX server
on an 8086 with a lightning-fast 1200 baud modem.)

Hah! I started on a Victor 9000 8088 and a 300 baud modem in
1984. (Hmm. I'm sure about the Victor and the CPU. Please
don't make me swear in court about the modem.)

How the decades pass when you're messing with technology!

Marty