Subj : RIP, Ward Christensen
To   : All
From : j0hnny a1pha
Date : Mon Oct 14 2024 01:14 pm

We lost another one, Ward passed away at the age of 78.

Sorry if this was already covered here. I just saw it.

"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."


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