# Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78 - Host: [arstechnica.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/arstechnica.com/) - Saved: October 21, 2024 (2024-10-22T01:57:59Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/29953e501914/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/29953e501914.json ## What Jamie wrote I’m old enough to remember dialing into BBS systems. I even ran a BBS out of my dorm room for a while with a single phone line. It was an amazing pre-Internet thing. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT298: Weekly Thing 298 / Tool, Solar, Circles](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/298/), Briefly ## Same host - [Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f57b97090a57/) (arstechnica.com, September 23, 2024) - [Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3c1c10b1d7e5/) (arstechnica.com, September 23, 2024) - [NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules | Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f08de805839a/) (arstechnica.com, September 27, 2024) - [Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong - Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9252bf79ee50/) (arstechnica.com, October 10, 2024) - [CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance” - Ars Technica](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2487783f8b0d/) (arstechnica.com, October 10, 2024) ## Saved the same week - [Busy Status Bar — Productivity Multi-tool Device with an LED pixel screen](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/902f3567cb60/) (busy.bar, October 21, 2024) - [The technology addiction trope — BuzzMachine](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/742330a6dad7/) (buzzmachine.com, October 21, 2024) - [Digital River Not Paying Developers - Michael Tsai](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a2dd9307166b/) (mjtsai.com, October 21, 2024) - [All Those Meetings by Kaamran Hafeez and Helene Parsons](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/02549a1e933a/) (condenaststore.com, October 21, 2024) - [A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/974d094dc645/) (github.com, October 21, 2024) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/