[P2P-F] Fidonet in community wireless projects?

Fri Mar 18 23:14:15 CET 2011

"FidoNet is a point-to-point and store-and-forward email WAN which uses modems on the direct-dial telephone network. It was developed in 1984, and has over 20,000 public nodes worldwide.

"FidoNet has been owned and operated primarily by end-users and hobbyists more than by computer professionals. Therefore, social and political issues arose in FidoNet far faster and more seriously than might be expected by those raised in other network cultures."

( this was written in 1992 and is quoted from http://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt )

It would seem that there are at least some parallels, and that FidoNet, although technologically quite different from what we have today, was in some way a predecessor to the local mesh networks that are being established here and there.

Sepp

On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Sascha Meinrath wrote:

> On 03/18/2011 03:58 PM, Michael Gurstein wrote:
>> Why don't we ask an expert... Sascha, any comments.
> 
> It's on the decline, but still alive (fidonet.org I think).  The
> decentralization is similar to some of the community LAN and wireless
> technologies, but I wouldn't say Fidonet was a precursor (technologically
> speaking).  Its hayday was 1980s/90s, but the Web pretty much crushed it over time.
> 
> --Sascha
> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> M
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>>    -----Original Message-----
>>    *From:* Michel Bauwens [mailto:michelsub2004 at gmail.com]
>>    *Sent:* Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:49 PM
>>    *To:* Michael Gurstein
>>    *Cc:* p2p-foundation; Sepp Hasslberger; armin at easynet.co.uk
>>    *Subject:* Fidonet in community wireless projects?
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>>    Interesting question, does anyone have the answer?
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>>    I'll relay to FAcebook,
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>>    Michel
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