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Fidonet in a sentence

Using Fidonet

  • In the example corpus, fidonet often appears in combinations such as: the fidonet, of fidonet, fidonet system.

Context around Fidonet

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 12 start, 5 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

distant 1× system 1× peak 1× using 1× structure 1×

Often after:

system 3× deployments 2× node 1× nodes 1× structure 1× mail 1× listed 1× protocols 1× systems 1× nodelist 1×

Sentence patterns with Fidonet

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a distant fidonet node or 1× another system fidonet was developed 1× as a fidonet system was 1× deployments most fidonet deployments were 1× fidonet deployments most 1× fidonet remains popular 1× fidonet was platform 1× fidonet would then 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

as a fidonet 1× as the volume 1× at its peak 1× at the peak 1× at the same 1× consequently operating a 1×

Common sentence endings:

39 000 systems 1× a modular fashion 1× and forward network 1× be read offline 1× by or expensive 1× call per day 1×

Words around Fidonet

Just before it in the word index:

fidometa 3 fido 43 fidler 13 fidlar 6 fidius 2 fidh 2

Just after it in the word index:

fidow 3 fidty 2 fidu 2 fiducia 2 fiducial 4 fiduciaries 6

Similar in corpus frequency:

abalone 76 abomination 76 accountancy 76 aed 76 akkadian 76 alisha 76

Corpus analysis for Fidonet

  • In this selection, "fidonet" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, distant, system, peak, system, deployments and node stand out and add context to how "fidonet" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a distant fidonet node or and another system fidonet was developed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "fidonet" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and accountancy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with fidonet

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

At its peak, FidoNet listed approximately 39,000 systems. (9 words)

FidoNews FidoNews is the newsletter of the FidoNet community. (9 words)

FidoNet deployments Most FidoNet deployments were designed in a modular fashion. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

In Fido's heyday, sending a Netmail message to a user on a distant FidoNet node, or participating in an Echomail discussion could take days, especially if any FidoNet nodes or hubs in the message's route only made one transfer call per day. (44 words)

At the same time, it was noted that some power users were interested in using FidoNet protocols as a way of delivering the large quantities of echomail to their local machines where it could be read offline. (37 words)

Due to the hobbyist nature of the network, any privacy between sender and recipient was only the result of politeness from the owners of the FidoNet systems involved in the mail's transfer. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

FidoNet deployments Most FidoNet deployments were designed in a modular fashion.

In Fido's heyday, sending a Netmail message to a user on a distant FidoNet node, or participating in an Echomail discussion could take days, especially if any FidoNet nodes or hubs in the message's route only made one transfer call per day.

Late in the evolution of the FidoNet system, there was a proposal to allow mail (but not forum messages) from these systems to switch into the FidoNet structure.

As a Fidonet system was usually a BBS, it needed to quickly process any new mail events before returning to its 'waiting for call' state.

As is it was prohibitively expensive for the hobbyist SysOp to have a dedicated connection to another system, FidoNet was developed as a store and forward network.

As the volume of FidoNet Mail increased and newsgroups from the early days of the Internet became available, satellite data downstream services became viable for larger systems.

At its peak, FidoNet listed approximately 39,000 systems.

At the peak of FidoNet there were over 120,000 points listed in the Zone 2 pointlist.

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At the same time, it was noted that some power users were interested in using FidoNet protocols as a way of delivering the large quantities of echomail to their local machines where it could be read offline.

Consequently, operating a Fidonet system often required significant financial investment, a cost usually met by the owner of the system.

Due to the hobbyist nature of the network, any privacy between sender and recipient was only the result of politeness from the owners of the FidoNet systems involved in the mail's transfer.

During the normal exchange between two instances of FIDONET, any files attached to the messages in the packets were delivered after the packet itself had been up or downloaded.

Echomail was so popular that for many users, Echomail was the FidoNet.

Estimating numbers According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web and AOL suddenly became mainstream.

FidoNet remains popular in areas where Internet access is difficult to come by, or expensive.

FidoNet was platform-independent and would work with any BBS that was written to use it.

FIDONET would then unpack the return packet, place the received messages into the local system's storage, and move onto the next packet.

FidoNews FidoNews is the newsletter of the FidoNet community.

Geographical structure FidoNet is politically organized into a tree structure, with different parts of the tree electing their respective coordinators.

In FidoNet terminology, kludge refers to a piece of control data embedded inside a message.

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Common combinations with fidonet

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