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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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gotMUSE t1_j5rp0kn wrote

For real? What patents?

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22marks t1_j5rpx1j wrote

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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gotMUSE t1_j5rrero wrote

At a Friendly's? Unreal. Much thanks.

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