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Ward Christensen

computer pioneer, invented Xmodem and co-invented BBS

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born: 1945
died: 2024
age at death: 78
known for: programmer

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who ward christensen is

Ward Leon Christensen was an American computer scientist who was the inventor of the XMODEM file transfer protocol and a co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online.

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