# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ward-christensen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:01:16.844Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ward-christensen"
name: "Ward Christensen"
slug: "ward-christensen"
description: "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."
tagline: "Computer pioneer, invented Xmodem and co-invented BBS"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ward_Christensen_and_the_First_BBS_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1945-10-23"
deathDate: "2024-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.482506666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 248
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/wardxmodem"
    handle:    "wardxmodem"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen"
    title: "Ward Christensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "وارد كريستنسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen"
    title: "Ward Christensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%83%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%85%8B%E8%8E%89%E5%8F%B2%E6%B1%80%E6%A3%AE"
    title: "沃德·克莉史汀森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen"
    title: "Ward Christensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen"
    title: "Ward Christensen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7968985"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump