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.Submitted by TriggerTough t3_10kdpgl in newjersey
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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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