I've still got my copy of this edition of Boardwatch Magazine. Most folks won't even know what that was, but when you say FidoNet, they'll say, "Yeah I think I've heard of that".

For that matter, they often respond the same way when someone says, "Usenet", or "comp.os.linux" lolz

Because really, that stuff was so long ago and everyone knows that Al Gore invented the Internet.