Fidonet was my first thought as well. I remember with some nostalgia sending emails to England from Australia back in the Fidonet days. It took a day or so to b

Fidonet was my first thought as well. I remember with some nostalgia sending emails to England from Australia back in the Fidonet days. It took a day or so to be delivered, but it did get there. The only restriction on Fidonet was the cost of international phone calls. I think, like the steam engine, inter-networking was a technology who's time had come.