@tindall yep! apparently they invented it while working for boeing

@nfd @tindall@cybre.space made me look. Wikipedia claims that “Boeing” is only one of the things they’ve claimed that the B stands for over the years? Which is the real B?

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@nfd @tindall@cybre.space I guess you get to choose what you want to believe and the Boeing story is more fun :)

@skybrian @tindall this story was re: someone at my university personally contacting one of the authors to ask what it stood for--not exactly a wikipedia-viable published secondary source.

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