Having the description of abbreviations all the way at the bottom of the article so that one has to scroll a mile to read what they mean is a bit annoying. Instead of:
>When the first IMPs^1 for the fledgling ARPANET were being built starting in 1969 at BBN^2 in Cambridge, MA, I think it safe to say that no one foresaw the devastating impact that the networking technology being developed would have on journalism thirty to fifty years later.
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>^1 Interface Message Processors. Today they would be referred to as Internet protocol routers.
>^2 Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, MA, a company that was always known as BBN. As distinct from BBN, the Buckingham Browne and Nichols school in Cambridge, MA — no doubt many employees of BBN sent their kids to school at BBN.
I would have preferred for at least the first of these two to be baked into the text itself.
>When the first IMPs^1 for the fledgling ARPANET were being built starting in 1969 at BBN^2 in Cambridge, MA, I think it safe to say that no one foresaw the devastating impact that the networking technology being developed would have on journalism thirty to fifty years later.
>[A million words]
>^1 Interface Message Processors. Today they would be referred to as Internet protocol routers.
>^2 Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, MA, a company that was always known as BBN. As distinct from BBN, the Buckingham Browne and Nichols school in Cambridge, MA — no doubt many employees of BBN sent their kids to school at BBN.
I would have preferred for at least the first of these two to be baked into the text itself.