> 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>
