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Zhandaly t1_j5qjii2 wrote

Reply to comment by TriggerTough in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

My dad went through a similar gauntlet in Holmdel... Intel, Lucent, Avaya... haha, this brought back some nice memories, thanks.

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Draano t1_j5qhwgg wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Not OP, but my guess is it's similar to the company that "started in a garage". Built/assembled in the basement, and shipped by the person in the company who happened to have the job of running to the post office, UPS or FedEx. Probably picking up lunch from McDonalds on their way back to the basement/office.

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SemiEmployedTree t1_j5qht2x wrote

Reply to Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Can you post a picture showing the names better? I’m wondering if anybody I knew back then is there.

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Waka-Waka-Waka-Do t1_j5qh720 wrote

Reply to comment by Fryceratops in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

That building has been converted to co-op space. It's amazing.

At one point it was in such disrepair that deer and other wildlife were living in it.

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Paul_S_R_Chisholm t1_j5qh3cs wrote

Reply to comment by TriggerTough in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Cool. I started my career in Holmdel at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1981. I met my wife there (we're still happily married), and our oldest worked there for awhile as a contractor.

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Paul_S_R_Chisholm t1_j5qgjw9 wrote

Reply to comment by imMakingA-UnityGame in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Yep!

A few nits:

>The Laser

The laser was "invented" by many people at many organizations.

>The GUI

The early ground breaking work was done at SRI and Xerox PARC. Bell Labs did invent the Blit.

>The C programming language (still at the core of most machines running today, even new ones, countless programming languages abstracted on top of/out of this)

And C++ (nobody's favorite language but hugely influential).

Also:

  • communications satellites (Telstar series)
  • touch-tone phones (back when you really would "dial" a telephone number)
  • Digital Signal Processors (DSPs)
  • transatlantic telephone cables
  • charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the heart of every digital camera

And so much more.

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celcel t1_j5qfxe2 wrote

Reply to comment by TriggerTough in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Plenty of art collectors loan their art to galleries and museums. Could do the same.

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joe_digriz t1_j5qbfvp wrote

Reply to comment by vey323 in First legitimate snowstorm of the winter on Wednesday will deliver 2 inches of snow for most of the state accompanied by a nasty mix of ice, drenching rain, wind gusts up to 50 mph and some coastal flooding; Winter weather advisory issued for Sussex, Morris, Warren and western Passaic counties by rollotomasi07071

Not even that. The only parts getting anywhere close to 2" (maybe) are in the NorthWest; everyone else in that band gets less than an inch (or some sort of rain/sleet mix, more likely, given temperature forecasts).

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matt151617 t1_j5q94fe wrote

Reply to First legitimate snowstorm of the winter on Wednesday will deliver 2 inches of snow for most of the state accompanied by a nasty mix of ice, drenching rain, wind gusts up to 50 mph and some coastal flooding; Winter weather advisory issued for Sussex, Morris, Warren and western Passaic counties by rollotomasi07071

Great, 2 inches of snow will fuck up traffic royally. Not because it's 2 inches of snow on the road, but because people are going to absolutely lose their shit and drive either 25mph or still drive 85mph and end up in a ditch doing the jersey slide.

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TriggerTough OP t1_j5q8f1q wrote

Reply to comment by watudoinstepbrah in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Central Ave. 3 houses from the HS. Right around the block from the hospital.

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