Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! Over the past few episode, I have noticed something that I thought was pretty much dead. The last couple Amateur Radio Club Spotlights that I have done, I have noticed that they have an active packet radio network with their club. It really surprised me because when I got my license back in about 1995, packet radio was pretty big and there were things like Rosenet, Texnet and several other networks that had a big span to them. People had packet bulletin boards, and keyboard to keyboard chatting was fairly common. Suddenly, things just started dying, it seemed. Systems we not being maintained and going offline and the systems that I used quite a while just stopped working. Maybe it was just here locally that it died, I don't know. Then with APRS getting more and more popular, people were finding other uses for their TNC's and the BBS's and the digipeaters were being used for APRS. Since I have done the last couple episodes, it makes me wonde