23 Oct
2024
23 Oct
'24
1:08 p.m.
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 16:00, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Robert Feldman via cctalk
wrote:
I cannot help but agree. This is a piece written by someone who is clearly
unfamiliar with any sort of computer networking before the '90s, and they
were obviously not willing to do any sort of research into contemporary (in
the '70s) computer culture either from a business or hobbyist perspective.
I suppose that I might have expected something more of a very high profile
newspaper, but at the same time I'm sure this is a "drive-by" piece for
the
author - checks all the boxes, fulfills all of the requirements that might
be asked of the dilettante readership, and it's on to the next surface
level treatment of someone who probably made a real impact.
-Henry
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social
Media, Dies at 78
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/technology/ward-christensen-dead.html?un…
Thank you for sharing that.
The author, presumably a heavy Reddit, TikTok and Facebook user, seemed to
have never heard about existence of computers before internet, nor about
any computer to computer connections other than internet. He does not
seem to know about anything except CBBS,and that solely because it
"resembles Facebook".