Jhenderson8

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BBN

I see that BBN is linked to the BBN pages, but I have always felt that BBN play such a major role in developing packet switching that they deserve a paragraph, or at least be mentioned in the main "History of the Internet" page. I worked with some BBN engineers on an aircraft noise contract for the FAA and they were the best in the business.

BBN Technologies (originally Bolt, Beranek and Newman) was founded in 1948 by Leo Beranek and Richard Bolt, professors at MIT, with Bolt's former student Robert Newman. Bolt, Beranek and Newman started life as an acoustical consulting company. They worked on the United Nations Assembly Hall in New York, Lincoln Center's Fisher Hall and Baltimore's Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. They also examined the Nixon tape with 18 minutes of erased data during the Watergate scandal and acoustical analysis for the House Select Committee on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

BBN was also a defense contractor, primarily for DARPA. The substantial calculations required for acoustics work led to an interest, and later business opportunities in computing. BBN was a pioneer in developing computer models of roadway and aircraft noise, and in designing noise barriers near highways. Some of this technology was used in landmark legal cases where BBN scientists were expert witnesses. BBN bought a number of computers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, notably the first production PDP-1 from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation).

BBN is best known for its work in the development of packet switching including the ARPANET and the Internet. Jhenderson8 (talk) 02:41, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

July 2011

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Charles Darwin. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. I have removed the text you added as it appears to be a straight copy from Bill Bryson's -A short History of Private Life. Such actions are against Wikipedia's Terms of use policy which I encourage you to read Tmol42 (talk) 16:14, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to Charles Darwin. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please do not ignore my advice in warning above to read Terms of use Tmol42 (talk) 16:17, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Great American Wiknic

In the area? You're invited to the Great American Wiknic.

Place: near Minnehaha Falls at Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis
Date: Saturday, July 7, 2012 (rain date July 8)
Time: 12–3 pm

• Accessible from the Minnehaha Park light rail station, bus, walk, bike, or car
• If driving, free parking available at 46th Ave. S, and pay parking in the park
• Food and drink options nearby, or bring your own... maybe even to share!

See the meetup talk page for more. —innotata 02:27, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Covered wagon

Do you know of a source for your addition to covered wagon? If you do, please add a citation to the article. If that is too difficult to figure out or confusing, just add a URL or book reference and someone else will format it into a citation. Thanks~ —EncMstr (talk) 04:22, 13 February 2017 (UTC)