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Leo L. Beranek, an engineer whose company designed the acoustics for the United Nations and concert halls at Lincoln Center and Tanglewood, then built the direct precursor to the internet under contract to the Defense Department, died on Oct. 10 at his home in Westwood, Mass. He was 102.
His death was confirmed by his son James.
Dr. Beranek taught acoustic engineering at Harvard and M.I.T. for more than three decades after World War II, conducting research there that laid the groundwork for acoustic advances with wide social impact, including noise standards for public buildings and airports. But one of his most notable achievements was well outside the field of acoustics.
In 1969, the company he helped found, Bolt, Beranek & Newman, won a contract from the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency to build the first computer-based network, which came to be called Arpanet.
When were you first exposed to the Arpanet/Internet? Did you ever use "Bang Paths" for sending e-mail?
(Score: 1) by mce on Wednesday October 19 2016, @11:10PM
First e-mail was in October 1988 - starting my final year as a CS student. Students did not get access until their final year because the department's infrastructure would not have been able to handle the load otherwise. Not a proper Internet mail yet.
First Internet mail a few days later at the EE research institute at which I did my masters thesis work. They had more money...