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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I remember as a kid I set up one of the first private Echomail nodes as part of my RBBS bulletin board. UUCP was a big part of that, as I was the hop for other nodes coming onboard in my area. I added another half-dozen modems eventually just to handle the email traffic, then had to offload it to a university because I didn't want to have to charge for the traffic and it was getting too big to handle. But it was pretty interesting at the time.