On 10/23/2024 3:22 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk 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."
Which had already been done with UUCP in 1976.
bill'
