On 2018 Dec 27 18:10:44, you wrote to Alex Barinov:

 AB>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

 AB>> "Around Christmas 1983, Tom Jennings started work on a new
 AB>> MS-DOS-hosted bulletin board system that would emerge as Fido BBS.

the above was added on 24 Apr 2013 by Maury Markowitz... according to the edit,
it was taken form the ben baker document... it was originally listed in the
"Origins" section... 14 Nov 2015 is when Maury Markowitz moved the above to the
"Tom Jennings account" section...

 BF>    Not that I would say that Wikipedia is always wrong, but I will
 BF> claim
 BF> that the Fidonews archives are a wee bit more reliable.

better would be from (one of) the horse's mouth(s), would it not?

  Date: 02 May 87 08:04:00
  From: Ben Baker
  To:   David Garrett
  Subj: History Lesson

  You and Hartman asked for it, so here (as best I can remember) is a capsule
  history of FidoNet.

  TJ once told me he began work on Fido around Christmas, '83. He wasn't sure
  exactly when.

  [...]

the above comes from the ben baker document which i think is HISTORY.MSG in the
FIDOHIST.ARC files that is available... i cannot extract it on this system to
be sure but i definitely remember ""porting"" it and the other two files to
html for display on my previous system back in ~1999 which looks like when i
recovered a copy of this file that i have previously lost...

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