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Having the description of abbreviations all the way at the bottom of the article so that one has to scroll a mile to read what they mean is a bit annoying. Inst
by eriknstr 10y ago
Having the description of abbreviations all the way at the bottom of the article so that one has to scroll a mile to read what they mean is a bit annoying. Instead of:
>When the first IMPs^1 for the fledgling ARPANET were being built starting in 1969 at BBN^2 in Cambridge, MA, I think it safe to say that no one foresaw the devastating impact that the networking technology being developed would have on journalism thirty to fifty years later.
>[A million words]
>^1 Interface Message Processors. Today they would be referred to as Internet protocol routers.
>^2 Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, MA, a company that was always known as BBN. As distinct from BBN, the Buckingham Browne and Nichols school in Cambridge, MA — no doubt many employees of BBN sent their kids to school at BBN.
I would have preferred for at least the first of these two to be baked into the text itself.
- MikeTLive 10y agoWhile I agree to some extent, I find it funny that I've somehow been around long enough to not realize people needed your example acronyms and names to be defined. Including the reference in the BBN definition to the other bbn :) I guess that's what happens when you live it first hand.