How Old Are We? II

[JimMarn]

Oh, My! Now I am having Fidonet architecture negotiations running through my head....

I heard about FidoNet around 1995. The filk community was still using it. Never used it myself though.

 

[aramis]

I heard about FidoNet around 1995. The filk community was still using it. Never used it myself though.

FidoNet was closely tied to the early public internet. Fidonet sites were using both IP addressing and domain names by 1990; an aquaintance ran fredbox.cojones.com in the 90-94 era.

Edit to Add: Yes, I was on fidonet via Fredbox. And through it to Usenet - the Fredbox Usenet interface was much saner than the UACN Vax at Uni. of Alaska Anchorage. (The lack of comma is intentional by the organization.)

 

[Spenser TR]

This is where I Google a video/audio of the old 2400bps modem negotiating that connection... sweet sweet memories.

 

[JimMarn]

This is where I Google a video/audio of the old 2400bps modem negotiating that connection... sweet sweet memories.

If you ever go on youtube and watch a video by The Breeders called 'Cannonball', they have a modem sound doing the handshaking in there.

There are comments trying to figure out what made it.

 

[LiNeNoiSe]

This is where I Google a video/audio of the old 2400bps modem negotiating that connection... sweet sweet memories.

All Old Modem Sounds (300 baud to 56K)

I ran my board from '91 till 2000.

GDW should've been on Fido.