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Ward Christensen, BBS Inventor and Architect of Our Online Age, Dies At Age 78
Tuesday October 15, 2024. 05:30 AM , from Slashdot
'Ward was the quietest, pleasantest, gentlest dude,' said BBS: The Documentary creator Jason Scott in a conversation with Ars Technica. Scott documented Christensen's work extensively in a 2002 interview for that project. 'He was exactly like he looks in his pictures,' he said, 'like a groundskeeper who quietly tends the yard.' Tech veteran Lauren Weinstein initially announced news of Christensen's passing on Sunday, and a close friend of Christensen's confirmed to Ars that Christensen died peacefully in his home. The cause of death has not yet been announced. Pior to creating the first BBS, Christensen invented XMODEM, a 1977 file transfer protocol that made much of the later BBS world possible by breaking binary files into packets and ensuring that each packet was safely delivered over sometimes unstable and noisy analog telephone lines. It inspired other file transfer protocols that allowed ad-hoc online file sharing to flourish. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/15/002203/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-o...
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