[sedatk]

There was a FidoNet clone in Turkey called HitNet (short for “Hi Türkiye Net”). Its node addresses were like “8:103/119”.

İ developed a Netmail server for Hitnet called HitBase in 1995 or so. It allowed people to discover others around their city to meet. Possibly the earliest thing that resembles Facebook. Similarly, it was a privacy nightmare too, luckily short-lived.

HitNet introduced me to great people some of whom I still see today. It was such a tight-knit friendly community.

The advent of Internet killed it but some communities are still active on other platforms.

[sedatk]

Forgot to add, I also developed a BlueWave-compatible offline-reader called Wolverine that worked for all Fido-style networks: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine

It was quite popular in Turkey in the 90's.

You can try it out in DOSBox here with some random HitNet packages: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine/releases/tag/2.32

[reconnecting]

WOW! Your FatalVision (1) is absolutely shiny! Wish I'd had it in the 90s.

Respect for the file_id.diz (2)! I thought mine was the last one on GitHub.

1. https://github.com/ssg/fatalvision

2. https://github.com/ssg/fatalvision/blob/master/file_id.diz

[BruceEel]

I'm 100% going to add file_id.diz to anything I release, how could I forget!

[reconnecting]

I've wished to have a reason to create my own FILE_ID.DIZ file ever since the BBS era.

https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/tirreno/blob/master/F...

[sedatk]

Thanks! I loved working on it!

[chris_armstrong]

I completely forgot about Wolverine, but you've reminded me I was using that back in the day to read my mail from Fidonet point (as well as Bluewave).

[sedatk]

Wow, amazing! I didn't know it had caught on outside Turkey. Putting it on Simtel paid off I guess. :)