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Perhaps the most successful non-commercial computer network is UseNet, a loose collection of Unix machines that pass messages between themselves via phone lines. A HUGE amount of information (some of it even useful) passes over this network. I'd like to see a similar net built with HyperBBSs, maybe using the same protocols, maybe using different ones but "gatewaying" into UseNet (and into FidoNet, a net of MS-DOS BBSs).
Once this net is established, you can easily build asynchronous games and other interesting applications.