Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History

Summary

Fidonet is a point-to-point and store-and-forward email WAN developed in 1984, with over 20,000 public nodes worldwide. It uses modems on the direct-dial telephone network and has gateways to the Internet via uucp.

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Historical significance as one of the earliest email networks

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