Subj : a "study" of fidonet from 1992
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Apr 03 2019 05:08 am

The following "study" of Fidonet networking was presented at the 42nd Annual 
Conference of the International Communication Association.
Miami FL, May 1992, just 4 years before Fidonet's "peak" in 1996.

TITLE: The new world of democratic telecommunications: FidoNet as an example of 

the new horizontal information networks

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228912221

The section "The Future of Fidonet" is topically interesting.

An excerpt: "FidoNet, it would seem, is evolving; it is entering a
transition phase from the old group of hackers, interested in the
equipment and the software, to a new group of users whose interest is in
the communications, in the information which is passed rather than the
system through which that information travels."

"..while the current FidoNet system might not continue its meteoric rise, the 
concept of FidoNet is one that will continue to thrive. "

Any thoughts?  New vision?  Ideas?

..../|ug

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