Fidonet's 1993 snapshot: how dial-up networks predated the internet
Hacker News·1w·Randy Bush
A technical retrospective on Fidonet — the pre-internet bulletin board system that connected hobbyists and small businesses through modems and phone lines. For indie makers curious about networking history, it's a window into how distributed systems worked before TCP/IP became ubiquitous.
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