One-man national motorcycle tour of Internet historical sites rolls into BBN honoring inventor of the "@" sign for E-mail addresses; Easy Rider of Cyberspace captures high-tech history through helmet-cam and documents journey via live broadcasts on the Internet.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1995--BBN today announced the arrival of Greg Elin, a man on a mission to document the history of the Internet by registering the significant milestones along the information superhighway and profiling the state of American computer connectivity. With a laptop computer, modem, motorcycle and a camera attached to his helmet, Elin rolls from New York's Silicon Alley An area in New York that has become known for its companies devoted to multimedia and the Internet. It is located in Manhattan's "Soho" district, which does not stand for Small Office Home Office, rather it is SOuth of HOuston Street. to Silicon Valley in California broadcasting his historical findings live on the Internet. Appropriately, the first leg of his journey swings through the high-tech hot bed--Cambridge, Mass. and BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. . On Friday, Oct. 20 at 1:00 p.m., Elin honored Ray Tomlinson, BBN's inventor of the "@" sign for e-mail addresses. BBN also participated in the design and development of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as , which led to the creation of today's Internet, and the company continues to pave the way for the Internet's future. The I-way rider presented Tomlinson with a commemorative plaque and toured the BBN Network Operations Center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ). Elin took his helmet-cam broadcast into BBN for a rare look at an Internet nerve center. BBN uses the Network Operations Center to monitor Internet connections and provide security monitoring services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Silicon Alley to Silicon Valley tour began Oct. 18 and runs through Nov. 7. Elin's entire journey will be documented live for the totalny.com Web site (http://www.totalny.com). The site will include daily journal entries, broadcasts from the bike, interviews in sound, video and text along with maps of the route. Using Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java* and HotJava* technologies, totalny.com will bring the Web site to life by merging video, animation, graphics and interactivity capabilities of a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). with the infinite reach of the Internet. To make this motorcycle adventure happen, Elin uses a Connectix digital movie camera along with an Apple laptop computer, a Sun Microsystems, Inc. Voyager* portable workstation, ARDISU national cellular network for telecommunications and Interport Communications for connectivity. Sun Microsystems, Inc., America Online and Total New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of have joined forces to sponsor Elin's mission. In all, Elin plans to stop in more than 25 small towns and big cities to honor the people and places that have influenced the development of the Internet in the past and those that are bringing it into the future. Other sites on Elin's itinerary include, Silicon Alley in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , the Pentagon in Washington D.C., Los Angeles and Silicon Valley in California. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman: NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BBN) is a provider of internetworking-related technologies, data analysis software and collaborative systems. For its fiscal year ended June 30, 1995, BBN had revenue of $215 million. Further information on BBN and its products and services may be obtained on the company's home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.bbn.com. CONTACT: Joan L. Irons Corporate Communications Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (617) 873-3514 Voice (617) 873-6899 Fax JIrons@bbn.com Internet |
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