Anybody remember FIDONET?

Before the net became available/affordable to 'us little people' - in the days where about all you could get here in Oz was ISDN from Telstra, or dialup at 1200/75. A whole bunch of people world wide set up BBSes - local dialup bulletin boards - incidentally my current ISP started off that way! - which would dialup each other in an organised 'chain' which even included 'end users' who didn't have a BBS to allow people to send 'emails' around, and chat on various bulletin board threads.

Maybe it's time for them again...