Subj : Re: RIP, Ward Christensen
To   : j0hnny a1pha
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Oct 15 2024 07:05 am

-=> j0hnny a1pha wrote to All <=-

 ja> "On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin
 ja> board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois.
 ja> Christensen, along with Randy Suess, created the first BBS in Chicago
 ja> in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of digital
 ja> community-building that presaged much of our online world today."

I'm glad Jason Scott interviewed him for the BBS documentary - we have
some footage of him that'll live on.

RIP.


 
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