Posted inChristensen, Ward (1945-2024) Computers and the Internet Deaths (Obituaries) Social Media Suess, Randy (1945-2019)
Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78
Housebound during a 1978 blizzard, he and a friend began devising the first computer bulletin board, a forerunner of online services like Reddit, TikTok and Facebook.