Your book should probably have a chapter on the age of BBS's
With thorough mention of Ward Christensen
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Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I'm afraid time abides no one! It seems that the greats were of an earlier
time, no pun intended, but they were pioneers who made technology work for
them.Happy computing. Murray 🙂
On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 9:05 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
1945 - 2024
Found dead 10/11/24 in a "wellness check".
Little or no other information yet.
Ward Christensen created the first "BBS".
Then, when he needed to transfer files, he created XMODEM. The XMODEM
protocols became the de facto standard for transferring files.
Later, there was some competition from Kermit, but, other than being "FROM
A
UNIVERSITY!", it wasn't nearly as good.
Not only are all of the greats dying off, but soon there won't be anybody
around who even knew about them.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
