Ward Christensen
Computer pioneer, invented Xmodem and co-invented BBS
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Lived 1945–2024, aged 79United States
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Updated 2026-06-26
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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