Credit to u/denzuko who posted this to r/bbs on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/wdvpvs/fidonet_vs_the_internet/
But I thought it would be neat to share it here.
Here's a ~12 min video of Leo Laporte talking with Cory Doctorow along with Brianna Wu & Alex Wilhelm about BBSes and Fidonet:
https://youtu.be/dt9GrWZ8-Ng
Leo mentions that he ran a two node BBS back in the day which carried
Fidonet. It looks like Leo was 1:125/21 back in 1986 according to nodehist.fidonet.org.ua.
It was neat seeing my name come up at 3:35 when Leo shows the Fidonet nodelist... :)
Jay
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