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Steve Johnson @SteveJohnson@octodon.social

I just now realized that #Mastodon is pretty much the modern day incarnation of the Bulletin Board Systems of the 1980s and 90s. Anyone remember #FidoNet ? It was the most popular BBS software in that time. Any admin could host FidoNet on their server and it connect it to other FidoNet servers. Hence someone could join a FidoNet "instance" of their choosing and be connected to numerous other instances. Mastodon is like a BBS over an http protocol... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNe

Greenie @amigiac

@SteveJohnson I've only just joined and had the same thought, it even has an odd but functional addressing system.

I was mostly known as 2:254/524.27 back then. 😀

has replaced Echomail with hashtags!

I suppose the multiple FTNs (, BarNet, MusicNet, etc) are now instance local feeds.

I was mostly using Spot on the connecting to Xenolink BBSs running on other miggys. We used to meet up and take over the bar at World of Amiga. :)

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Steve Johnson @SteveJohnson@octodon.social

@amigiac A Commodore guy/gal eh? I started out as a TRS-80 guy, and then moved on to be an Atari ST guy. You and I might have bashed each other on message boards back in the day, only to find ourselves here in the Fediverse. 👍

Greenie @amigiac

@SteveJohnson never really a serious Commodore guy, started off on the Acorn Electron & BBC micro, then Amstrad CPC, Amiga and finally a mix of Windows and Linux, I've dabbled in the Mac world along the way.

I was all over the echos back in the early 90's trash-talking the ST so there's a big possibility. 😆

It's good to know I'm not the only Fido-veteran in the fediverse.

You might be interested in this video from the 34C3 conference last week.
media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9034-bbss_

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