Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

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Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828923 - Oct 2024 (72 comments)

Sadly this article is, per the tradition over at Ars Technica, quite misleading.

Bottom line: if you want to understand the actual history of the online world, don't read Ars Technica. They don't get it, they've never gotten it, and you're just being fed mythology and selective history in the same mold as WIRED before it.

They should know better. The author of the article absolutely has no excuse. But still, they actually public "architect of our online age" when that is NOT what Ward was at all. He was a latecomer. The online world was already booming in 1978.