[ale] When I was young

[Jerald Sheets]

mmmm FidoNet.  I loved running a maildrop back in the day.  That and QWKMail was the bomb, and you weren't tied to incoming mail/messages 24 hrs/day, either!

I used to love running my BBS.


--j



On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 16:23 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Hmmm, I thought the e-mail was when I was young.
> 
> We had email.  If you would call it that.  Problem was it was slow.  I
> would send you an email today and you would receive it tomorrow.  You
> would reply but I would receive it on Friday.  Just better to call you
> on the phone.
> 
> This was called fidonet :)
> 
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