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. Christensen, Ward (1945-2024), Deaths (Obituaries), Computers and the Internet, Social Media, Suess, Randy (1945-2019) 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. NYT > Business