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		sedatk on Nov 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History of Fidonet (1993) Turkey had its own FidoNet-style network called HitNet (with the prefix "8:" instead of "1:") back in the 90’s. It had about 400 active users nationwide. I had even written an offline mail reader software compatible with QWK and BlueWave: https://github.com/ssg/wolverine

throw0101a on Dec 1, 2019 [–]

> Turkey had its own FidoNet-style network called HitNet (with the prefix "8:" instead of "1:") back in the 90’s.

Given that FidoNet only went up to Zone 6, they could just leverage the same technical standards:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet#Geographical_structure

I remember there being other "nets", but cannot for the life of me remember their names.

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