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I worked for bbn.com back in the mid 2000's before they went out of business. BBN employed some of the smartest people I've ever worked with, but the company c
by joeblau 8y ago
I worked for bbn.com back in the mid 2000's before they went out of business. BBN employed some of the smartest people I've ever worked with, but the company couldn't figure out how to keep the business relationships going. I remember having a conversation with my colleague saying "How does a company that invents the internet go out of business?"
I was eventually laid off along with about 30% of the company. I saw people who worked there for 18 years brought to tears because BBN was all they knew. My key take away was that experience was that no matter how impactful your tech company is on society, leadership's vision really determines the trajectory.
- macintux 8y agoI started at BBN a few years before that, a month before the sale to GTE. It was a shame, they definitely had some tremendously bright people. I also have on a couple of occasions worked at Eli Lilly, who had a class A because they were early to the Internet; I found it vaguely humorous that between BBN and Lilly I'd worked on more class A networks than most people would ever have the opportunity to.
- jacquesm 8y ago192.* and 127.* work just fine ;)
- stock_toaster 8y ago192.168.* is only a 16bit rfc-1918 allocation. Perhaps you meant 10.* ?
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- MrMorden 8y agoDo you have a black rocket?