![]() Many of those at the reunion hadn’t seen one another or been in touch for years. Now, a quarter-century after installing the first network node, BBN had invited all of the ARPANET pioneers to come together, hoping to heighten its own profile by throwing a lavish celebration marking the anniversary. ![]() Most of them had never gained much recognition for the achievement.īolt Beranek and Newman, a computer company based in Cambridge, had been their center of gravity, had employed many of them, had built and operated the original ARPA network, then slipped into relative obscurity as the Internet grew like a teeming city around its earliest neighborhood. ![]() They had worked in relative obscurity in the 1960s a number of them had been only graduate students when they made significant contributions to the network. These were the scientists and engineers who had designed and built the ARPANET, the computer network that revolutionized communications and gave rise to the global Internet. They came to Boston from as far away as London and Los Angeles, several dozen middle-aged men, reuniting for a fall weekend in 1994 to celebrate what they had done twenty-five years earlier. ![]()
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