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by digitalni 2582 days ago
Are these still active? How many people actually use them? I'd love to join, as my first internet encounter was in the windows 95 era.
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I know this one is active: https://bbs.fozztexx.com/
It is slow, but it works fine. It even detects using xterm with 209x75, with ASCII character set, and allows overriding them if the auto-detection doesn't work (I don't know what other possibilities are supported; maybe PC character set with DOS ANSI.SYS? and presumably also shellinabox, which I have not tried). They support both by telephone and internet; I didn't know they still did that. Also, the menu does not resemble the picture in the web page.
There are many active boards, and a lot of activity between them on FTN style networks such as fsxNet and ArakNet.
I still login to a few every week. See you on FidoNet!