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Mike Haaland
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:31:53 -0700, Larry Jaques
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Oldtime BBSes (Bulletin Board Services) used to hook up to FIDO and
RIMEnet for news posts, the precursors to Usenet...
Just looked it up. FIDOnet started in '84, USENET in '79.
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