Ward Christensen coined the term " Bulletin Board System " as a reference to the traditional cork-and-pin bulletin board often found in entrances of supermarkets, schools, libraries or other public areas where people can post messages, advertisements, or community news.

The first public dial-up BBS was developed by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess.

September 2 the Emery Ward was organized with Casper Christensen as Bishop.

Ward Christensen and the CBBS.

CBBS ( Computerized Bulletin Board System ) was a computer software program created by Ward Christensen to allow him and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between one another.

* Ward Christensen, computer scientist

Ward Christensen

Ward Christensen, born in West Bend, Wisconsin, U. S., is the co-founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system ( BBS ) ever brought online.

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* 1993: Paul Baran, Vint Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes, USENET developers ( accepted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis )

XMODEM is a simple file transfer protocol developed as a quick hack by Ward Christensen for use in his 1977 MODEM. ASM terminal program.

However, Ward Christensen refused to do this, as it was precisely the lack of these features, and the associated coding needed to support them, that led to XMODEM's widespread use.

It was formally given the name " YMODEM " in 1985 by Ward Christensen.

He originally created the software as the result of a poker game with friends that were praising the BBS software created by Ward Christensen.

# Baud: the beginnings of the first BBSes, featuring Ward Christensen and Randy Suess

* 1980 – Derrick Ward, American football player

* 1903 – Ward Moore, American novelist ( d. 1978 )

Former colonial governors of Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward, as well as the Reverend Isaac Backus and the Reverend Samuel Stillman, were among those who played an instrumental role in Brown's foundation and later became American revolutionaries.

Precursors of the form existed by the 1920s, which saw a revival of the medieval woodcut tradition by Belgian Frans Masereel, American Lynd Ward and others.

* 1979 – Jessie Ward, American professional wrestler

* 1953 – Gary Ward, American baseball player

* 1942 – Fred Ward, American actor

The American sociologist Lester Frank Ward and the English writer G. K. Chesterton were early critics of the philosophy of eugenics.

Elizabeth Ward Gracen ( born Elizabeth Grace Ward ) is an American actress who won the title of Miss America in 1982.

* 1970 – Jonathan Ward, American television and movie actor

* 1958 – Matthew Ward, American singer ( Second Chapter of Acts )

* 1905 – Lynd Ward, American artist and storyteller ( d. 1985 )

* 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer ( d. 1887 )

* 1955 – Leah Ward Sears, American jurist

* 1977 – Selwyn Ward, American actor

* 1982 – Adrian Ward, American football player

* 1863 – George Hull Ward, American general ( b. 1826 )

* 1945 – Burt Ward, American actor

* 1956 – Sela Ward, American actress

* 1982 – Pendleton Ward, American animator, writer, and voice actor

* 1921 – Rodger Ward, American racing driver ( d. 2004 )

* 1949 – Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer, developed the first wiki

* 1973 – Vonda Ward, American boxer

* 1976 – Hines Ward, American football player

Ward Cunningham created WikiWikiWeb with a primary focus on computer programming design patterns.

Considered an outcast because of his questioning of the way things are, especially his refusal to accept the arranged marriage of Rachel ( Gay Rowan ), the girl Devon loves and who loves him and his friend Garth ( Robin Ward ), Devon inadvertently finds his way into the service areas of the ship and uncovers its fate by accessing a computer data station that explains the purpose of the ARK and hints at its problems.

Howard G. " Ward " Cunningham ( born May 26, 1949 ) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki.

The first wiki application, WikiWikiWeb, was created by American computer programmer Ward Cunningham in 1994 and launched on c2. com in 1995.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

Ward created the Portland Pattern Repository on c2. com as a means to help object-oriented programmers publish their computer programming patterns by submitting them to him.

* William Ward Armstrong, Canadian mathematician and computer scientist

Ward played numerous characters in Star Trek computer games as did Jim Cummings.

During the same year Terrell Ward Bynum, the professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University as well as Director of the Research Center on Computing and Society there, developed the first ever curriculum for a university course on computer ethics.

Ward had a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from York University, and worked as a computer systems designer before entering political life.

The use of high dynamic range imaging ( HDRI ) in computer graphics was introduced by Greg Ward in 1985 with his open-source Radiance rendering and lighting simulation software which created the first file format to retain a high-dynamic-range image.

Mark Ward, an editor for the BBC's web site, brought up an incident years earlier in the computer game The Sims, where many players ' characters died of a curable disease originating from a dirty guinea pig, though there was no way for the disease to spread to a different player's character.