Fidonet was neat. I think I sent a message to a Fidonet forum in Thailand or Cambodia (from Oregon) once, and someone answered, but it was about a two week rou

Fidonet was neat. I think I sent a message to a Fidonet forum in Thailand or Cambodia (from Oregon) once, and someone answered, but it was about a two week round trip. For anyone not familiar, a participating BBS would dial up its upstream hub in the wee hours of the morning and exchange messages, and the hubs used dial up as well, so sending messages between major cities took days, depending on how many hops they took. Toward the end there were even some email gateways, so you could send reeeeaaally slow email as well.