[cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen NY Times Obituary

there No, the date is correct. Creating CompuServe was one of the first acts of King William in the immediate aftermath of winning the Norman Conquest in 1066. CompuServe (using human computers, of course, as Fred points out) was a way for King William to communicate with his newly conquered land, in a time when the printing press was not to be invented until centuries later. Neil Stephenson wrote an excellent summary of this topic in his introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The Crying of Lot 49. If you're wondering, I learned all of these facts from ChatGPT. On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 2:23 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk < cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 1:45 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk < > cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; > wrote: > > > >> The author, presumably a heavy Reddit, TikTok and Facebook user, > seemed > > to > > >> have never heard about existence of computers before internet, nor > about > > > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote: > > > Y'all are ignoring CompuServe and that is hurting my feelings :-) > > > > dialog (1966), Compuserve (1069), The Source (1979, so a tie), and > > Community Memory (1973, but not dialup), and probably a few lesser ones > > preceded CBBS. > > > > Come on, Fred. You're old but you're not that old, and I don't think there > > Sellam >