On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:33:48 -0600, the opaque Mike Haaland
clearly wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:31:53 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

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.

Thanks, guys. I sit corrected. (Too lazy to stand.)


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