FidoNet History
FidoNet was started in
the early
1980's by Tom Jennings in San Francisco, California and some friends of
his who lived in Baltimore, Maryland. A few people have
documented the
very early days of Fidonet.
Tom Jennings Ben Baker K12Net  |
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Initially, communications consisted of simple messages going back and
forth
between these systems. Tom's Fido software was the next step in
allowing
a BBS (Bulletin Board System) to exist in the
network.
At FidoNet's peak in the 1990's, some 30,000 systems communicated
worldwide in the FidoNet network.