Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78
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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.
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