Ziff's Rupert Goodwins commemorates the start of the BBS (bulletin board system) in 1978. Later, various BBSs were linked together in networks, starting with Fidonet in 1984. Me and Rupert used one of the early UK Fidonet nodes, Compulink, and we're both still members of the CoSy thing it became: Cix (Compulink Information eXchange).