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Pcakes844 t1_j5rqdy2 wrote

Reply to comment by dethskwirl 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

Fr. YooHoo, the electric guitar, the light bulb, the motion picture camera and the whole modern movie industry as we know it today, Campbell's soup. Just a tiny bit of all the things that were created here in New Jersey.

Like the bridge says "Trenton makes, the world takes"

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22marks t1_j5rpx1j wrote

Reply to comment by gotMUSE 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

Here's the whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Go to the last page and the references are listed, but these three of the eight are from Bell Labs and were conceived at the Friendly's Restaurant in Morristown:

S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document," In Journal of Cryptology, vol 3, no2, pages 99-111, 1991.

D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping,"In Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, pages 329-334, 1993.

S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conferenceon Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997.

One of the actual patents can be found here:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5136647A/en

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AidanAmerica t1_j5rmorr wrote

Reply to comment by SursumCorda-NJ 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

Windows is the 800 lb gorilla exception, but the vast majority of operating systems are derived from Unix. Here’s the short explanation:

AT&T’s Bell Labs invented Unix in the late 60s. They funded research related to all kinds of communication projects. Because of an antitrust decree, AT&T wasn’t allowed to sell computers or computer software until after 1982, when the Supreme Court broke them up.

So, during the 70s, AT&T had this great OS, but they couldn’t sell it. They could, however, license it as a trade secret. So universities and companies bought a license, and they’d get the UNIX source code — think an Ikea chair that’s sold disassembled, but which comes with instructions on how to turn those parts into a working chair.

During that time when AT&T was licensing out those instructions, people studied them and learned how the system works. Returning to the chair analogy: after you assemble it, you could study it and figure out how it distributes the force through the chair to support a person. Then, after you learn how that chair works, you could use that knowledge to go build your own chair from scratch.

After AT&T was split up in 1982, they could start selling the OS as a finished product, but it didn’t matter as much anymore: the secret was out. People could build their own chairs. BSD and Linux* are two examples of UNIX-like operating systems that came about that way.

Modern day UNIX derivatives contain none of that original AT&T- authored code, but they are based off of a clone of AT&T UNIX.

So, because AT&T did all the hard work 40 years ago, and now you can reap the benefits for free, most people and organizations that need an operating system just use one of those free UNIX-derived clones. Apple’s operating systems, Android, FreeBSD (Netflix’s OS of choice for their server infrastructure) all come from that gene pool.

The one major exception is Windows, because Microsoft built their own OS from scratch back when it made a little more sense to do so, and now if they tear it up and start from scratch, they’ll break 37 years of third party software. It’s possible to put together a fix, but then they’d end up in an even more precarious situation of trying to support decades of software plus this new variable. Microsoft has always been hesitant to do that type of thing. Apple, by contrast, is willing to just break old things in the interest of progress and tell their users to suck it up.

Hey, that didn’t end up being short at all.

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Tobar_the_Gypsy t1_j5rj9x1 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

I went to school with a Steuben that came from a wrestling family….same family? From Bergen county.

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22marks t1_j5rfsy2 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

Also Blockchain. Including several of the patents listed on the Bitcoin whitepaper.

EDIT: As answered below, the idea of blockchain was conceived in the Friendly's in Morristown. Three of the eight technical references in the Bitcoin whitepaper are from these NJ inventors at Bell Labs.

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gsp137 t1_j5rag9k wrote

Reply to What would you miss most about NJ if you went elsewhere? by joe_digriz

I love the small towns, each with its own unique downtown, bars, restaurants, mom and pop shops all within a walkable area. I live two block from such a treasure. Walk to the movie, train to NYC, post office, barber, dinner and cocktails. Love NJ’s diversity, ethnically, geographically and culturally, but our small “cities” are True Jersey

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nadeemon t1_j5rag82 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

You're also forgetting neural networks, which power alot of AI today. They were invented by yann lecun at bell labs, his manager was Rich Howard, who was involved with WINLAB at Rutgers.

Then there's also Thomas Edison and all the advancements his company made.

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