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CFIDO

This is a collection of information related to CFIDO, the first regularly accessed bridge between China and the outside world in the early days of dial-up bulletin boards.

Great Wall, a server located in Beijing, became the first FidoNet node on the Chinese mainland in 1991. By 1992, it merged with Hand-in-Hand, a node in Shantou, to form CFIDO. When the Internet became a thing, the BBS maintained a presence at www.cfido.com.

The network is usually only remembered today for its notable node operators: Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi, Ma Huateng, founder of Tencent, and Qiu Bojun, founder of Kingsoft.

The server began publishing digital magazines in ZIP format in 1997. A few are archived here and converted to Unicode for display on modern hardware.