Richard Brian Johnson is the author of the book Abominable Firebug (ISBN 0-595-38667-9) which presents his account of daily life at the Lyman School for Boys. Johnson invented the Rubber Ducky antenna while attending the Lyman School for Boys. Johnson went on to a career as an engineer and inventor. He also created the JMODEM file transfer protocol.Mr. Johnson founded the Danvers, Massachusetts software company, Route 495 Software, LLC in early 2009.