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BBN, that is an acronym I haven't heard in years that brings back memories! They've been around for a long time, but I didn't hear of them until the mid 1990's
by latchkey 4y ago
BBN, that is an acronym I haven't heard in years that brings back memories!
They've been around for a long time, but I didn't hear of them until the mid 1990's when I was running a system that ping'd all the major DNS servers (Internet Weather Report).
https://icannwiki.org/BBN https://icannwiki.org/BBN
- moloch-hai 4y agoThey wrote the first TCP/IP stack. Correctly. We got the Berkeley one instead with all its bugginess (which bugs we still work around) for dumb reasons. I have not found out what the API would have been like, instead of socket() / connect() / listen() etc.