@marathon Ah! That'd explain the slightly blurry quality and the weird fashion sense. 😋

Even though I had a BBS of my own, I never took the bother to become a full-fledged node of Fidonet, I just stayed as a point and joined the fun channels to chat on. Reason was that becoming a node did cost money.

I was a node on the local echomail network instead and got points (users) calling into my BBS to fetch mail for that network. :)
We don't have flatrate, calling was expensive. Becoming a Fidonet node probably would've made my parents even more upset. 😅

I was so glad we finally got broadband in 2000, even though that basically was the death of the BBSes. I still kinda miss the local echomail networks. They were a lot smaller and you kinda knew who was who.