Ward Dossche : Paul Hayton wrote:

> .. A few days ago people remembered 30 years of WWW. Nobody
> ever remembered 30 years of Fido, it was relevant at one time.

Www embraced commercial presence.  Fidonet was always promoted as "hobby"
non-commercial.  Hence, Www gets corporate funding, compuserve is created, AOL
comes along, subscriptions are offered, etc. That's why it is remembered.
Fidonet is completely different, just a hobby network, privately supported -
nothing wrong with that except that is not what makes the evening news.

I learned about Fidonet through a BBS magazine. I believe one particular issue
I had even included RBBS-PC (or it was ordered by request, I can't remember).
But that's what got the ball rolling for me.

We shouldn't be comparing www and fidonet or get depressed about it and think
there is no hope for a new improved fidonet.

.../|ug

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