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by qsort 101 days ago
It became famous in Italy even among non-techies because it was involved in a large scale police operation in 1494 dubbed the "Fidonet crackdown".

https://www.wired.com/1994/08/hacker-crackdown-italian-style...

2 comments

>in 1494

Boy, I suspected it might have been before my time, but not that much!

it's a typo, but you've gotta admit Lorenzo il Magnifico on a 90s BBS dealing with political scandal in a steampunk Florence is a sick premise for a novel.
Mi hai fatto sentire molto vecchio. Grazie :-D