See FidoNetter on Wiktionary
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"text": "The two cultures are slightly different. While a fair number of us eggheads participate in both nets, the FidoNetters tend to discuss day-to-day issues a bit more than the c.l.m2 folk, who mainly seem to exchange addresses of vendors and flame C :-).",
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