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Re: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:24:18PM -0700, Chris Rehm wrote:
> Well, not to be argumentative, but I think that USENET was a natural 
> stepping stone from the international BBSs, like FIDO, which were 
> providing message and file exchange "for the masses." Mosaic certainly 
> put a new interface on the net and accelerated the growth.

Usenet predated the networked BBS world. It was well under way when Fido was
just taking off. I ran Fido node 64 (not 1:106/64.0, not 106/64, just 64) in
1983, and I'd already been on Usenet by then.

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