Subj : RE: The Birth of HobbyNet
To   : Amessyroom
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Mon Jan 12 2026 18:55:28

On 1/11/2026 10:28 AM, Amessyroom wrote to Mike Dippel:

->   Re: The Birth of HobbyNet
->   By: Mike Dippel to All on Sat Jan 03 2026 08:29 am
-> 
->  > Back in the late 80's, I had a subscription to Prodigy.  When it expired, I 
->  > research and purchased the DOS version of Mustang's BBS software and ran 4 p
->  > lines into my house.
-> 
->  > My wife loved to write in Prodigy's Cross-Stitch echo, so I decided to make 
->  > Prodigy and devote it to hobbies.
-> 
->  > I lived in Broward county Florida and found various other dialup systems tha
->  > willing to 
->  > carry my feeds.  The feed went as far as south Dade county and as far north 
->  > Beach county.
-> 
-> Thanks for sharing. Great story. Wish we could see more traffic in the echoes.
-> But I guess we are all overwhelmed with stuff on the web. I love reading the
-> echoes and UseNet. Hate the spammers messed up UseNet, but same has happened 
on
-> the web.
-> ===   
-> Amessyroom
-> toolazy.synchro.net:2323 (telnet)

So how did you get your start in BBS'ing?

Mike Dippel
 
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