Subj : RIP, Ward Christensen
To   : j0hnny a1pha
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Oct 15 2024 10:13 am

  Re: RIP, Ward Christensen
  By: j0hnny a1pha to All on Mon Oct 14 2024 01:14 pm

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

I saw this the other day, and it's sad to hear.  I saw his interview in BBS: 
The Documentary, where he was talking about making his BBS software with Randy 
Suess, where they were snowed in and couldn't go to work, and they started 
working on CBBS.  That seems to me like it would be a perfect snowed-in project 
to work on at home.

Nightfox
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