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Ward Christensen, co-creator of the first online bulletin board, has died.
Christensen was a computer scientist credited with creating the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in 1978, which let users exchange information through a dial-up connection.
Although Christensen devised the CBBS to communicate with other members of his computer club, it helped lay the groundwork for social media platforms to come.
Christensen was 78.
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
[The New York Times]
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