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What was once a fun hobby turned into unending friction between node operators since every sysop had different ideas of how things should be run.
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Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.
—Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023
In 1987, Pablo Kleinman, a sysop in Buenos Aires, helped to connect the first four FidoNet nodes in Argentina, and a year later, Juan Dávila, a sysop in Puerto Rico, announced the creation of Latino Net, a Spanish-language conference.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2016
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Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2024
My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.
—Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023
In 1987, Pablo Kleinman, a sysop in Buenos Aires, helped to connect the first four FidoNet nodes in Argentina, and a year later, Juan Dávila, a sysop in Puerto Rico, announced the creation of Latino Net, a Spanish-language conference.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2016
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“Sysop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sysop. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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sysop
noun
sys·op
ˈsis-ˌäp 
: the administrator of a computer bulletin board
Etymology
system operator
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