This is a great find. Right before college I had the chance to sit in a lab at BBN for a few of the summer months. I believe at the time they were owned by Verizon. I remember thinking that I was walking on hallowed ground - where many computing "firsts" had happened. But they were a bit of a shadow of their former self... In some sense I feel that is true for a lot of tech. Govt or defense funding planted the original seeds for a lot of the great tech we have today. Now bleeding edge tech is mostly driven by rich guys and their pet projects...

I still have a mug and a t-shirt from BBN. My wife almost threw the mug out once. Umm... NOPE!