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So are the FIDOnet fights lost in the Ether?
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:03 pm
by gaijinpunch
I looked around, and while there seems to be FIDOnet archives... they only have a handful of threads. Such a shame... spent lots of hours on a dialup w/ floppy disks to access that stuff. Oh, the memories. A shame that it and all those timed scripts are likely gone.
Re: So are the FIDOnet fights lost in the Ether?
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:58 pm
by greg
I certainly have fond memories of FIDOnet. Did you use the SLMR (Silly Little Mail Reader) to download the FIDO threads, read them offline, and then upload your messages when you reconnect? I have a text file of all my signature taglines I'd used in SLMR, but unfortunately I no longer have a working Zip Drive to access it.
Re: So are the FIDOnet fights lost in the Ether?
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:33 am
by yusaku
I had a similar place that was dismantled on the net. I chatted on the WBS chat rooms. I spent a LOT of time in the anime or role playing chat room. I even got to the point I would call one of the members by phone. It was a whole lot of drama going on. It was so much fun. We would meet up online all the time. Unfortunately, they dismantled the chat server. I lost a lot of contacts. This is why I intend on getting my own web address and build contacts through the web. Actually, I do have my own web address; I just got to put up the site. I want to have a working chat server with file transfer capability. An old idea I still got to get off the ground.
Re: So are the FIDOnet fights lost in the Ether?
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:14 am
by gaijinpunch
I forgot what the hell I used, but it was pretty fugly. But yeah, you got the right idea. Download, reply, reconnect, upload. If someone else was connected to that BBS, good luck. Also, huge lag in getting messages replied to on time and in an orderly fashion. Yet, everyone still had the heart to disagree about all kinds of things.
I did make one contact there in Canada whom I traded a lot of tapes with. We generally corresponded via FAX.
Re: So are the FIDOnet fights lost in the Ether?
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:54 am
by greg
gaijinpunch wrote:I forgot what the hell I used, but it was pretty fugly. But yeah, you got the right idea. Download, reply, reconnect, upload. If someone else was connected to that BBS, good luck. Also, huge lag in getting messages replied to on time and in an orderly fashion.
Yeah, I usually had to wait until the next day to get the new feed. I think eventually, my BBS would get new messages twice a day or so. Other BBSes only updated their FidoNet messages once a day.