I didn't really get all that involved on Fidonet until I started carr it around 2000.

Interesting.. I remember multiple (tempted to say many) BBSes in my
area that carried FidoNet. I started running my own BBS in 1994, and I felt very late to the party when I eventually added FidoNet to my BBS in 1998.

I don't think I started until 1994 and was only active until mid 1995 when life and a girlfriend caught up with my attention :)

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On 09 Oct 2026 at 06:09p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

I found an old nodelist from 1991, when I started realitycheckBBS. The
San Francisco bay area had to have over 100 BBSes listed.

You have a four year head start on me. :)

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