Raytheon to buy BBN, a firm that helped create Net

Raytheon to buy BBN, a firm that helped create Net - wow!

The company became famous for its research in computer networking. In the 1960s, it developed the first modem for transmitting digital data over telephone lines and invented a router to accurately relay vast amounts of data to multiple locations.

BBN also played a major role in the invention of electronic mail, including the first use of the “at’’ symbol as a vital part of all e-mail addresses.

BBN was also chosen by the Department of Defense to build a computer network called Arpanet, the forerunner of the modern Internet.

Then Cisco came along and the rest is history.