The Bugbook era started 35 years ago in February 1974 with a professor's desire to teach digital electronics to a class of chemical engineering (ChE) college students at Virginia Tech.  Professor Rony was the sole author of the "Experiments in Digital Electronics" workbook, which was used with fifteen ChE students during the spring quarter 1974. 

Chemical Engineering Professor Rony initially approached David Larsen of the Chemistry department to help teach digital electronics to Peter's students.  Peter and David co-taught the spring 1974 course, which preceded Peter's writing of Bugbooks I, II, and IIA during summer 1974.   Jon Titus joined Peter and David, and later Chris Titus joined the three of them.    For additional details, please visit the website, www.blacksburgdeception.com .

From the colaboration came the companies, Nanotran Inc, Tychon Inc, Group Technology Ltd. and the Blacksburg Group Inc.  The Blacksburg Group was incorporated on October 15, 1979.   Peter Rony legally split from the companies and the group on June 17, 1980; he acquired sole copyright ownership of books known as Bugbooks. The others got the companys' assets, the Bugbook name, and the logo.

As part of the settlement, Howard W. Sams republished Peter's books with Peter as the sole author and sole copyright holder, but without "Bugbook" in the title and without the bug logo.  With no books having Bugbook in the title, the Bugbook era ended as of June 17, 1980. 

The website  blacksburgdeception.com was placed online on April 13, 2009.    The website bbookhistory.com was placed online on April 16, 2009.   The Home page for blacksburgdeception.com was revised on April 19, 2009.