And people not even from the states (like me) know about NJ diners because one saw the birth of Unicode :)
> … 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
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