\ \\ | (*) | \ )) ______ |__U__| / \// / FIDO \ _//|| _\ / (________) (_/(_|(____/ (c) John Madill FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used...
52 KB (7,571 words) - 19:57, 21 May 2025
Signature block (section FidoNet)
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...
12 KB (1,473 words) - 22:34, 27 May 2025
Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-20. Bush, Randy (1992). "FidoNet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History". Fidonet. Archived from the original on 2003-12-03. Retrieved...
51 KB (6,607 words) - 14:56, 1 June 2025
internet authentication mechanisms Fido (wireless carrier), a Canadian cellular, home phone and Internet provider FidoNet, a worldwide bulletin board system...
3 KB (368 words) - 23:35, 25 March 2025
FOSSIL (redirect from Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer)
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...
3 KB (427 words) - 22:36, 3 November 2024
BBS's on RelayNet communicated via a communications protocol called RIME (RelayNet International Mail Exchange). RelayNet was similar to FidoNet in purpose...
4 KB (456 words) - 16:12, 22 December 2022
Store and forward (section FidoNet)
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...
6 KB (829 words) - 19:19, 16 January 2025
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...
8 KB (1,075 words) - 14:11, 19 December 2024
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...
13 KB (1,476 words) - 23:15, 4 March 2025
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...
27 KB (3,889 words) - 19:29, 3 May 2025
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...
7 KB (652 words) - 22:25, 13 December 2024
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...
10 KB (855 words) - 20:31, 24 May 2025
improved throughput. SEAlink was written in 1986 as a part of the SEAdog FidoNet mailer written by System Enhancement Associates, creators of the famous...
4 KB (674 words) - 12:24, 11 May 2021
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...
6 KB (615 words) - 17:08, 10 April 2025
was popular among bulletin board system (BBS) users, especially users of FidoNet and other networks that generated large volumes of mail. QWK was originally...
5 KB (698 words) - 22:25, 13 December 2024
WWIV (section WWIV vs Fido: controversies and BBS wars)
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...
14 KB (1,765 words) - 05:56, 1 April 2025
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...
7 KB (583 words) - 02:59, 19 March 2025
standards-based technology projects, FidoNet grew rapidly, and then forked. The addition of Zones to the Fidonet technology allowed for easier routing...
7 KB (732 words) - 07:42, 13 May 2025
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...
13 KB (1,505 words) - 18:50, 10 April 2025
computer networks of both academic and commercial use such as USENET, Fidonet, and the bulletin board system. By 1989, the Internet and the networks...
156 KB (17,810 words) - 14:39, 1 June 2025
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...
4 KB (598 words) - 17:42, 28 August 2024
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...
66 KB (6,374 words) - 05:22, 25 May 2025
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...
107 KB (10,615 words) - 00:59, 26 May 2025
sublink.* newsgroup hierarchy and a gateway with the Italian branch of FidoNet. Its founders on September 25, 1989 were: Paolo Ventafridda (president)...
2 KB (268 words) - 20:32, 13 October 2023
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...
6 KB (727 words) - 20:53, 3 May 2025
History of the Internet (section Net neutrality)
bulletin board system (BBS) networks also provided on-line access, such as FidoNet which was popular amongst hobbyist computer users, many of them hackers...
200 KB (22,324 words) - 17:55, 23 May 2025
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...
6 KB (639 words) - 13:54, 1 June 2025
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...
3 KB (298 words) - 06:38, 4 January 2025