MvdV> If I had been away for no matter how long and wanted to return and
 MvdV> needed to find the nearest NC, I would google for "fidonet nodelist".

   When I first connected my BBS to the BBS-network fidonet in 1989, the first
thing I did was downloading the latest nodelist. No Google by then, not even
WWW.

   It wasn't until after the download started that I realized that it wasn't
28kB but 280kB. It took 50 minutes to download on a crappy per-minute-cost
connection with my non-MNP 2400 modem.

   The new generation don't know how lucky they are...  :)



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