Phone caught the “What did you say” phrase. Please disregard! Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 23, 2024, at 12:40, Wayne S <wayne.su...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Author is a general assignment reporter. Not young judging from his mugshot. > Wouldn’t expect him to cover XM modem too much as that’s for very technical > people and wouldn’t be relevant to his article. If David Pogue wrote the > article then perhaps > All in all a very good article what did you say? > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Oct 23, 2024, at 12:22, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Robert Feldman via cctalk wrote: >>> >>> Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78 >>> >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/technology/ward-christensen-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UU4.nswM.540OUXuySX84&smid=url-share >> >> Thank you for sharing that. >> >> >> The author, presumably a heavy Reddit, TikTok and Facebook user, seemed to >> have never heard about existence of computers before internet, nor about any >> computer to computer connections other than internet. He does not seem to >> know about anything except CBBS,and that solely because it "resembles >> Facebook". >> "Early Visionary of Social Media" >> >> >> It is an adequately detailed story of his life, and mostly about CBBS ("a >> forerunner of Reddit, TikTok and Facebook") >> >> A dozen paragraphs about CBBS, but XMODEM barely rated a mention, and even >> there, only about its use on CBBS: >> >> "In 1977, he developed a protocol, called XMODEM, for sending computer files >> across phone lines; it was later used on C.B.B.S." >> . . . "For decades, his license plate read, XMODEM." >> >> -- >> Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
