There surely must be some BBS backup tapes somewhere that at least contain some of the boards?
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#12I also remember the MausNet. This was a German speaking counterpart so to speak. Interestingly, I remember it from my Atari days, even though it was initially a Apple network (Münster Apple User Service).
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#13It was really popular in Ukraine in the late '90s, before Internet became widely available. [Former point of 2:4614/1]
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#14It became famous in Italy even among non-techies because it was involved in a large scale police operation in 1494 dubbed the "Fidonet crackdown".
https://www.wired.com/1994/08/hacker-crackdown-italian-style...
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#15Episode 4 of the BBS documentary covers Fidonet and is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng0NE4lDP2U
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#17It became famous in Italy even among non-techies because it was involved in a large scale police operation in 1494 dubbed the "Fidonet crackdown". https://www.wired.com/1994/08/hacker-crackdown-italian-style...
>in 1494
Boy, I suspected it might have been before my time, but not that much!
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#18I also remember the MausNet. This was a German speaking counterpart so to speak. Interestingly, I remember it from my Atari days, even though it was initially a Apple network (Münster Apple User Service).
Greetings from the past! Was on KA2 back then, Minnie was such a nice user experience. Will always remember the groups Pascal, Oberlehrer and Allohol =;-D
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#19Last I checked it was still quite alive with quite a few BBS systems, though admittedly that was a few years ago.
Looks like you can still hook up to it using a Synchronet BBS anyway using the steps available here: https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:fidonet
The homepage for FIDONet itself is here: https://www.fidonet.org/
And the Zone 1 Hub, Dark Realms (a Renegade BBS since 1994) is here: https://www.darkrealms.ca/ It has node lists available if you're looking for systems to connect from.
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