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Ward Christensen, inventer of XMODEM and co-inventer of the BBS, has died
Not much I can say, .Story here" [arstechnica.com]
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Christensen, along with Randy Suess, created the first BBS in Chicago in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of digital community-building that presaged much of our online world today.
RIP, man who's code I used a lot back in the day.
The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again.
