I thought it was a good article too. Christian, what do you do at the Times?
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 24, 2024, at 04:38, Christian Liendo <clie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> Associated Press has a deaths wire where they put up obits of people of >> interest. I’d assume that’s how NYT even knew about Ward. It’s interesting >> to me that they bothered to put up his obit as he is mildly famous even to >> tech folks. They might have seen the chatter about him and decided based >> upon that. 10 days might be because that’s when they had enough space in the >> newspaper or maybe they wanted it to run in the science or technology page >> which is not run every day. > > Actually I posted the ArsTechnica article in one of the New York Times > internal chat channels on Oct 16th, I was hoping someone would pick > this up. I did the same when Chuck Peddle died. > > I work for the Times and there are a few people here who appreciate > old technology. I don't have any pull, but some of the writers are > serious techies. > > As for the article, this is the New York Times and not ArsTechnica. > The readers are different and the writers have to find ways to relate. > Depending on your perspective, BBSes were the social systems of the > time. I can see the link between them. > > I thought it was well written and regardless of what you think of the > Times, it is nice to see Ward Christensen remembered with a proper > obituary. > > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 10:55 PM Wayne S via cctalk >> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> Fred, probably there was no death file for Ward so the writer had to start >> from scratch. >> Associated Press has a deaths wire where they put up obits of people of >> interest. I’d assume that’s how NYT even knew about Ward. It’s interesting >> to me that they bothered to put up his obit as he is mildly famous even to >> tech folks. They might have seen the chatter about him and decided based >> upon that. 10 days might be because that’s when they had enough space in the >> newspaper or maybe they wanted it to run in the science or technology page >> which is not run every day. >> I wouldn’t be asked because i’m not a source for anything. >> I only knew about Edwins passing from other people on the Classic Computer >> discord. >> Death files have fact checked items and a summary obituary written usually >> for someone older like both Clintons, George Bush, Donald Trump, Jack >> Nicholson, Cher, etc. They are updated from time to time with new items. >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Oct 23, 2024, at 15:10, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >>>> wrote: >>> >>> for the "unwashed masses", cbbs was like a blog, and revolutionary. and >>> something they can relate to >>> >>> people send photos on emails, but file transfer with xmodem was only >>> meaningful for computer nerds. business did file transfer more like >>> faxing. specialized devices called each other, maybe even manually >>> answered, and used dedicated protocols for those devices. >>> >>> <pre>--Carey</pre>
