[cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen NY Times Obituary

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, Robert Feldman via cctalk wrote: 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". "Early Visionary of Social Media" It is an adequately detailed story of his life, and mostly about CBBS ("a forerunner of Reddit, TikTok and Facebook") A dozen paragraphs about CBBS, but XMODEM barely rated a mention, and even there, only about its use on CBBS: "In 1977, he developed a protocol, called XMODEM, for sending computer files across phone lines; it was later used on C.B.B.S." . . . "For decades, his license plate read, XMODEM." -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com