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imMakingA-UnityGame t1_j65qdvb 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

The C programming language was created to facilitate the creation of UNIX, im sure it has assembly code all over the place too.

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imMakingA-UnityGame t1_j5tgyqv wrote

Reply to comment by RafeDangerous 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

Linux is UNIX based and uses POSIX, it’s essentially a. GUI extension ontop of UNIX. We wouldn’t have it without UNIX. *NIX machines perhaps is more accurate than UNIX, but that’s just semantics. At its core LINUX is UNIX on crack. Obviously it’s come leaps and bounds away from UNIX in this age but it’s built ontop of it.

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imMakingA-UnityGame t1_j5tgq1m 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

Yeah, so it’s either MS-DOS based systems or UNIX based. If it’s not a windows machine its 99% likely its UNIX based. This would lead you to think the vast majority of computing things are windows as it’s the most popular OS, however you need to consider ALL computers. Not just Laptops/PCs.

Think phones, tablets, smart watches, cars, “smart” anything’s, TVs, rockets, servers, anything running Linux, basically anything running a computer chip which is….a lot of shit now.

That being said, even windows has been in the last few year implementing more and more of the UNIX/POSIX type shit for developers.

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imMakingA-UnityGame t1_j5q460m wrote

Reply to comment by Professional-Error58 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

NJ played a HUGE part in computing in general, Bell Labs is responsible for creating a LOT of the stuff still used today.

To name a few:

The transistor

The Laser

The solar cell

The fields of radio astronomy and information theory

The GUI

UNIX operating system (still at the core of most machines running today, even new ones)

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

There are many im forgetting I’m sure. It has had like 9 Nobel prizes come out of it i think. Today it is a shell of its former self but Bell Labs is more or less to thank for the modern world of computing. Without C and Unix, computers being so accessible to the masses wouldn’t have happened.

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imMakingA-UnityGame t1_j5q42s3 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

That is AWESOME! Please take good care of this, you’ve got a real piece of history here.

Should consider loaning it to a museum temporarily or something but I do understand the personal value to you so can’t blame you for not wanting to.

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imMakingA-UnityGame t1_j1qw78c wrote

Reply to comment by anonymous_plus_ultra in is 73k good in new jersey? by anonymous_plus_ultra

Oh for sure. Count yourself lucky, its a salary to be proud of. You can not only survive on it but if you learn to budget well you can thrive on it.

I will also say have you tried asking for more? Its extremely common in the negotiating process.

For example my last job I took offered me 80, I said in, professional terms, I feel based on industry standards, cost of living Rises, and comparing to average salary in my field in my area, etc, that 85 would be a more fair compensation. I started the job at 85.

Might work, might not, but I’ve never heard of an offer being taken away because someone asked for more than the initial offer. Worst case is they just hold their ground and your salary is what they offered.

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imMakingA-UnityGame t1_j1qkis0 wrote

Reply to comment by anonymous_plus_ultra in is 73k good in new jersey? by anonymous_plus_ultra

Welcome to adulthood, where your only two certainties are death and taxes.

Income Tax is a bitch. Wait until you see the taxes you get hit with for owning a house here.

I personally find it worth paying these extras to be near my family/other benefits of NJ life, but I will say if this is a big issue for you there are multiple states that dont have income tax (federal income tax will still apply but its not as bad)

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