Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

BBSes were a very big part of my early computer days. I learned real programming in high school teaching myself and hacking on BBS source code in Pascal. Not knowing that I would soon be on the Internet, one of the reasons I went to university in a city was so that there would be local BBSes. All of that had huge impact on my life and I’m just one small example. I and many others owe huge thanks to Ward Christensen and all those who carried on what he started.

>hacking on BBS source code in Pascal

Was it Telegard? WWIV was originally in Pascal but by the time I got to it, it had been rewritten in C++. Telegard was built off the Pascal version of WWIV (if I'm remembering right). There was another BBS based off WWIV in Pascal, but I don't remember the name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegard

I started on a Commodore 64 and C-NET BBS then was gifted a PC in late 1990 and WWIV was the closest thing with source code. We had a pretty decent modding community for both C-NET and WWIV. Good times.