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Possible. Their HN profile claims they’re Ray Ozzie, which I find hard to believe. https://keybase.io/rozzie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Ozzie
Sure looks legit based on the linked Keybase, Twitter, and GitHub.
There are 9 FidoNet nodes in my net. (154) I added 2 new ones within the last month or so.
My BBS is accessible at: https://warensemble.com It can also be accessed via SSH, Telnet, and possibly dialup but the program that handles my modem often checks out on me without warning (usually after a dropped call, which happens far too often over a VOIP line)
The joke is that Fidonet will eventually just be 2 sysops sending netmail back and forth to each other, where they argue about the policies and methods of how that mail is sent.
I do remember. :) Posted the same question ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12216932 The archives are almost completely gone and only a small fraction is available on internet. Perhaps some still exist on old harddrives - but I wouldn't count on it. Disk space wasn't cheap back then.
A lot of current BBSes may have archives from the last 10 years or so. I know mine does: https://warensemble.com
I still think that some of those systems are easier to use than what we have now.
I miss the quality of EchoMail conversations with friends around the world. I even ended up moderating a few echoes myself after mods had moved on.
Good times.
For those who want to learn more, there is a BBS documentary: https://archive.org/details/bbs_documentary
Highly recommended.
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One thing I miss about HN type forums is the "here is what you haven't read yet". When an article has 100 comments and I've already read 75 it is rarely worth my time wading through to see the new ones. Even though I know from experience that writing a good insightful comment takes a lot of time. Most of what I'm missing will not be very insightful, but I'm sure I'm missing some of the most insightful comments. It al…
These days you might even vibecode it in one prompt, although coding it manually is not super hard either.
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Their account that has been posting for over 15 years and has made numerous comments with real insight into the times under discussion? I know it's necessary to have a healthy bit of skepticism when being on the Internet but I think we could agree this is one of the weirdest, longest, dumbest cons in the history of confidence games if this is not Ray Ozzie. HN has a fairly wide group of "famous" contributors like Woz…
When did Woz post here? I'd love to see that.
It 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...