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Hello Kurt!

 KW> I know Adam Curry was slightly leading-edge in the '90s..
 KW> A nodelist lookup doesn't show anything.

Yeah.. It seems that anyone who may have attained any kind of  
media status, seems to have little to nothing to say about  
Fidonet today.   Leo Laporte (of TWiT podcast fame) seems to  
have had a Fidonet node for a couple of years 1986-1988 only.


 KW> There have been some documentary efforts, we should really
 KW> start capturing more of our history. Sysops have been
 KW> passing away for some time.

The book Modem World - A Prehistory of Social Media - by Kevin  
Driscoll, does a fine job analysing and presenting the matrix  
of online development including a modicum of reference to  
Fidonet and how, where and when it fit in the timeline of  
things.

Isn't there a wiki page about Fidonet that seems to be the  
"documentary efforts" that you speak of?

Perhaps there could be a better effort to announce that the  
Fidonet universe is still alive and kicking and *not* be spoken  
of in the past-tense all the time when someone "reviews"  
Fidonet.
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