• \ \\ | (*) | \ )) ______ |__U__| / \// / FIDO \ _//|| _\ / (________) (_/(_|(____/ (c) John Madill FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used...
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    signatures. With FidoNet, echomail and netmail software would often add an origin line at the end of a message. This would indicate the FidoNet address and...
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    Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-20. Bush, Randy (1992). "FidoNet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History". Fidonet. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03. Retrieved...
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  • internet authentication mechanisms Fido (wireless carrier), a Canadian cellular, home phone and Internet provider FidoNet, a worldwide bulletin board system...
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  • acronym for Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer. Fido refers to FidoNet, Opus refers to Opus-CBCS BBS, and SEAdog refers to a Fidonet compatible...
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  • BBS's on RelayNet communicated via a communications protocol called RIME (RelayNet International Mail Exchange). RelayNet was similar to FidoNet in purpose...
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    Usenet (redirect from Net news)
    commonly used to automate the process. Fidonet, bbscorner.com Archived February 7, 2022, at the Wayback Machine fidonet.org, Randy_Bush.txt Archived December...
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  • techniques evolved into packet switching which replaced it for most purposes. FidoNet was an email store-and-forward system for bulletin board systems that peaked...
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    conferencing service developed by CIX Online Ltd. Founded in 1983 as a FidoNet bulletin board system, it is one of the oldest British Internet service...
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    compiled in 1990 by members of the now-defunct FidoNet Science Fiction and Fandom (SFFAN) email echo. The FidoNet list originated with a 1988 Saturday Night...
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  • transmission error. As TeLink was normally used only by FidoNet software, which demanded it as part of the FidoNet standards, this did not present a real-world problem...
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  • FastEcho (category FidoNet software)
    FastEcho is a message processing package for FTN (FidoNet Technology Network) mail systems. It was written and released as shareware by Tobias Burchhardt...
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  • sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/FidoNet/Fido-FidoNet-folder.zip Archived 2023-09-17 at the Wayback Machine path Fido-FidoNet-folder/FILES/fidonet-history/publicke.art...
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  • improved throughput. SEAlink was written in 1986 as a part of the SEAdog FidoNet mailer written by System Enhancement Associates, creators of the famous...
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  • concern. Users of large networks such as FidoNet regularly used offline mail readers, and it was also used for UseNet messages on the internet, which is also...
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  • was popular among bulletin board system (BBS) users, especially users of FidoNet and other networks that generated large volumes of mail. QWK was originally...
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  • forming a worldwide proprietary computer network, the WWIVnet, similar to FidoNet. WWIV started out in early 1984 as a single BBS in Los Angeles, California...
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    keyboard, 3.5" floppy disk drive and a XTR modem (allowing access to ZX Net and FidoNet). Extension kit Scorpion GMX (Graphic Memory eXpander) for Scorpion...
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  • standards-based technology projects, FidoNet grew rapidly, and then forked. The addition of Zones to the Fidonet technology allowed for easier routing...
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  • aimed at bulletin board systems, where its high-speed HST protocol made FidoNet transfers much faster. During the 1990s it became a major consumer brand...
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    computer networks of both academic and commercial use such as USENET, Fidonet, and the bulletin board system. By 1989, the Internet and the networks...
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  • was created by Wayne Bell on December 1, 1987. The system was similar to FidoNet in purpose, but used a very different routing mechanism that was more automated...
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  • mail was in use at DEC prior to the commercial release of ALL-IN-1. 1984 FidoNet is released, creating a network of connected email-accepting and -forwarding...
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    Internet (redirect from Inter net)
    on the Net 2018" (PDF). Freedom House. November 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 November 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2018. OpenNet Initiative...
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    World Wide Web (redirect from Surf the Net)
    wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the...
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  • sublink.* newsgroup hierarchy and a gateway with the Italian branch of FidoNet. Its founders on September 25, 1989 were: Paolo Ventafridda (president)...
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  • destination.[citation needed] GIGO was the name of a Usenet gateway program to FidoNet, MAUSnet, e.a. The phrase may also be used in the context of machine learning...
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    bulletin board system (BBS) networks also provided on-line access, such as FidoNet which was popular amongst hobbyist computer users, many of them hackers...
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  • HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP servers with IPv4 + IPv6 support Full 5D compliant FidoNet BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP & FTP mailers Built in AreaFix and...
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  • Binkp (category FidoNet)
    Binkp is a protocol for transferring FidoNet or WWIVNet mail over reliable connections. It is typically used to deliver mail over the internet, instead...
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