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* BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has DiedLawrence D'Oliveiro
+* Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has DiedFrancis Strelok
|`- Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Diedcandycanearter07
+- Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has DiedJoerg Walther
`- Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has DiedScott Dorsey

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Subject: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died
From: Lawrence D'Oliv
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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:35 UTC
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From: ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
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Subject: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died
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Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the first computer-based Bulletin
Board System, and creator of XMODEM, the first file-transfer protocol
designed to work over noisy phone lines (both in the late 1970s), has
passed away at the age of 78.

He never made a big deal out of his pioneering achievements, and always
kept a modest profile in his personal life.

<https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/>

Subject: Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died
From: Francis Strelok
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the first computer-based Bulletin
> Board System, and creator of XMODEM, the first file-transfer protocol
> designed to work over noisy phone lines (both in the late 1970s), has
> passed away at the age of 78.
>
> He never made a big deal out of his pioneering achievements, and always
> kept a modest profile in his personal life.
>
> <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/>
>

Sorry to hear, RIP.

Subject: Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died
From: Joerg Walther
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

>He never made a big deal out of his pioneering achievements, and always
>kept a modest profile in his personal life.
>
><https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/>

Here you can watch him in an interview for the 2005 BBS Documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dddbe9OuJLU&list=PL7nj3G6Jpv2G6Gp6NvN1kUtQuW8QshBWE&index=1

-jw-
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Subject: Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died
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Francis Strelok <fr@nc> wrote at 12:21 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the first computer-based Bulletin
>> Board System, and creator of XMODEM, the first file-transfer protocol
>> designed to work over noisy phone lines (both in the late 1970s), has
>> passed away at the age of 78.
>>
>> He never made a big deal out of his pioneering achievements, and always
>> kept a modest profile in his personal life.
>>
>> <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/>
>>
>
> Sorry to hear, RIP.

Yeah, rest in peace..
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Subject: Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died
From: Scott Dorsey
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:50 UTC
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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: BBS Pioneer Ward Christensen Has Died
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the first computer-based Bulletin
>Board System, and creator of XMODEM, the first file-transfer protocol
>designed to work over noisy phone lines (both in the late 1970s), has
>passed away at the age of 78.

Oh no! First Irv Hoff and now Ward!
--scott

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