alt Hacker NewsAnd people not even from the states (like me) know about NJ diners because one saw the birth of Unicode :)
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caymanjim • today at 4:32 AM
It's virtually guaranteed that much of the birth of Unix itself took place at NJ diners.
And people not even from the states (like me) know about NJ diners because one saw the birth of Unicode :)
It's virtually guaranteed that much of the birth of Unix itself took place at NJ diners.
> … NJ diners because one saw the birth of Unicode
While it’s possible that Unicode was also conceived at a diner, you’re likely thinking of UTF-8. Unicode was from a decade earlier.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt