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@rsalz 2:370/15 reporting, sir!

But we mainly used static origins and taglines ("... tagline") instead, which was random (occasionally manually) picked from a file.

#fidonet 😀

... Everyone's useful, if for not else, then as a deterrent.
--- GoldED/2 2.42
* Origin: LifeForce WHQ - The Verbose Madness (2:370/15)


By the way there's a bunch of people on Matrix at #fidonet:grin.hu aka. #fidonet:matrix.org


Years before the Internet became available outside universities, I was running a #FidoNet node, a network of #BBS which allowed users to exchange mail and post to discussion groups.

We were volunteer-driven and funded by donations. More hierarchical and more bureaucratic than the #fediverse: we had elections for administrative roles, a long policy everyone had to agree to, voting for policy changes...

FidoNet reached 20k nodes at its apogee.