*** Quoting Sergey D. Olimpiev from a message to Sergey Ermakov ***

SE> There is one russian journal

SDO> What's the name of that journal?

SE> dedicated to IT called our fidonet structure as 'internet for a poor
SE> people'.. What do you think about it?..

SDO> Fidonet is an offline net and Internet is an online net. These are two
SDO> different structures. And if somebody compares the structure of Fidone
SDO> the structure of Internet and says that it is the same, that only mean
SDO> this man doesn't  know what is Fidonet and what is Internet.  You  sho
SDO> read such journals.

Oh, it's not that bad of a statement.  His phrase that he repeated wasnt
about ¨the technology used (quite different) but about a more general
connectivity ¨issue.  While the Internet predates Fidonet, mass
connectivity for the average ¨person started with fidonet and only later
shifted.  Today, in many parts of ¨the world, the Internet connectivity is
still not financially as easily ¨obtained as a simple BBS dialup can be.
                                       xxcarol

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