Bulletin Board Systems

Pioneering online community known for engaging conversation and intelligent debate. Features more than 260 conferences ranging from technical and specific to abstract and surreal. Telnet access on well.com.

Archive of the Hotline Mailing List from the early days of Hotline development.

The main official web-site of FidoNet with a lot of information.

Presents the history of the network and provides information about its organizational, technical and geographical structure.

Encyclopedia article that gives an overview of these systems, their history and a brief presentation of their content, along with links to more specialized articles.

What is Fidonet? How Fidonet works? How to join?

Information about the film released in 2005. Includes details of research, a list of interviews, trailers, reviews, and an online ordering facility.

Presents the history of these systems and a global explanation of the way they work. Includes a large collection of links.

A very customizable automated Hotline client for server administration and user moderation.

Open source GNU/Linux client that supports most of the latest Hotline features.

FidoNet Region 13 serving Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC, and West Virginia. Current Nodelist/Nodediff, software, links.

Contains technical standards, standards proposals and related documents that have been archived and indexed.

The weekly newsletter of Fidonet community.

A Hotline client written for Unix/Linux-like operating systems. It employs the Gtk+ environment for the front-end and utilizes a back-end based on the HX project.

Offers an explanation of the way the official client works, also includes a FAQ on connection errors and navigation tips. Apparently no longer maintained but still of interest.