24 Oct
2024
24 Oct
'24
1:58 p.m.
After all of this all I want to know is if an autopsy was done or not?
<DUCKS> ;)
-Ali
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cisin via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2024 1:44 PM
To: Christian Liendo via cctalk
Cc: Fred Cisin
Subject: [cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen NY Times Obituary
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, Christian Liendo via cctalk wrote:
Actually I posted the ArsTechnica article in one
of the New York
Times
internal chat channels on Oct 16th, I was hoping
someone would pick
this up. I did the same when Chuck Peddle died.
I work for the Times and there are a few people here who appreciate
old technology. I don't have any pull, but some of the writers are
serious techies.
As for the article, this is the New York Times and not ArsTechnica.
The readers are different and the writers have to find ways to
relate.
Depending on your perspective, BBSes were the
social systems of the
time. I can see the link between them.
I thought it was well written and regardless of what you think of the
Times, it is nice to see Ward Christensen remembered with a proper
obituary.
. . . and, did you hear about first on this list?
if so,
NYT heard it from you, (THANK YOU!)
you heard it from this list,
I did the first post about it on this list
I heard about it on another list,
the person who posted about it on that list doesn't remember source
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com