According to an essay titled In the beginning there was FIDO, "Fidonet gateways were installed at WebNetworks (Canada), IGC (United States), GreenNet (UK), Laneta (Mexico), Comlink (Germany), Nordnet (Sweden) and Worknet/Sangonet (South Africa)."
A volunteer editorial team sifted through incoming press releases, reports and contributions from users and the media and made them available, sorted by department.
It arose from text-based, mostly privately operated mailbox systems, into which you could dial directly using a modem via a telephone connection.
Because of its success, right-wing extremist groups such as the NPD, particularly the Young National Democrats, attempted to infiltrate the CL network.
[2] At the end of the 1990s, the CL network lost its position in favor of platforms such as indymedia or politik-digital, partly due to long-standing rejection of the more open, but also more uncontrollable and, from the perspective of the time, cost-intensive access technology “Internet” (or “ web browser ”) .
[3] The option to submit new articles is scheduled to no longer be offered at the end of March 2015, while contributions made until then will continue to be accessible via the website in the sense of an archive.
International networking began in 1990 through the “Association for progressive communications” using this inexpensive technology, which was also used in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, in Latin America and the African continent.
In 1991, during the coup in Moscow, there was a regular communication connection to the partner network “GlasNet” via decentralized mailbox systems in Belarus, Estonia and Finland (see also: END Convention ).
The Dutch peace activist Wam Kat wrote his “Zagreb Diary” on a daily basis, creating an early forerunner of today's blogs .
In fact, this interruption of the thread irritated users; The process could not be consistently maintained despite various technical auxiliary structures.
Since members of various left-wing splinter groups were also reading and writing, the CL network came into the sights of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.