To anticipate the obvious criticism: No, FidoNet wasn't ever going to replace the pre-Web Internet. ARPAnet had first-mover advantage & $$$.
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What FidoNet shows is large-scale networking wasn't a mysterious discovery that needed a Manhattan project. Hobbyists could half-ass it.
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I'm not sure how really comparable those two things are. uucp was a lot closer in function to FidoNet.
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UUCP was thoroughly entangled with the early Internet, though. Ran on a lot of the same machines and pipelines. FidoNet was early PCs.
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I'm countering the popular idea that FedGov was necessary to have modern networks.
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Because here's a bunch of hobbyists creating a whole parallel infrastructure out of bandaids and foil.
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You should see my late-night long-distance phone bills from the early 90s. LOL
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God, me too. Got in so much trouble for that.
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