23 Oct
2024
23 Oct
'24
4:17 p.m.
Fred, probably there was no death file for Ward so the writer had to start from scratch.
Associated Press has a deaths wire where they put up obits of people of interest. I’d
assume that’s how NYT even knew about Ward. It’s interesting to me that they bothered to
put up his obit as he is mildly famous even to tech folks. They might have seen the
chatter about him and decided based upon that. 10 days might be because that’s when they
had enough space in the newspaper or maybe they wanted it to run in the science or
technology page which is not run every day.
I wouldn’t be asked because i’m not a source for anything.
I only knew about Edwins passing from other people on the Classic Computer discord.
Death files have fact checked items and a summary obituary written usually for someone
older like both Clintons, George Bush, Donald Trump, Jack Nicholson, Cher, etc. They are
updated from time to time with new items.
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On Oct 23, 2024, at 15:10, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
for the "unwashed masses", cbbs was like a blog, and revolutionary. and
something they can relate to
people send photos on emails, but file transfer with xmodem was only meaningful for
computer nerds. business did file transfer more like faxing. specialized devices called
each other, maybe even manually answered, and used dedicated protocols for those
devices.
<pre>--Carey</pre>