#belllabs — Public Fediverse posts

Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/ #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025)

https://acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15/the-boring-part-of-bell-labs/

#HackerNews #BoringTechnology #BellLabs #Innovation #Research #2025 #TechHistory

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71263

#CVE being used as intended.

#ATT #Unixv4 #BellLabs

Introducing direct dial long distance in this 1950s movie via @connections

#ATT #BellLabs #Telephones #Telephony #CommunicationsHistory

https://youtu.be/kisfjR6yO9s

2/6
En los Laboratorios Bell de Nueva Jersey, William Shockley, John Bardeen y Walter Brattain buscaban una solución: controlar la electricidad a través de materia sólida, no del vacío. 🧪 Lo que lograron la tarde del 23 de diciembre de 1947 parecía un proyecto escolar de primaria hecho con prisa, pero estaba a punto de cambiar el mundo para siempre.
#BellLabs #Fisica #Ciencia #Transistor

#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...

#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...

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#History #Tech #Computer #Languages #Programming

#Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) :

main()
{
printf("hello, world\n");
}

https://korben.info/hello-world-origine-histoire-programmation.html

#History #Tech #Brian #Kernighan ( #Canadian) working in the #BellLabs, in the book "A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" ( 1978) : main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } korben.info/hello-world-...

#KenThompson Recalls #Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
Thompson's vivid recollection of rowdy roomful of geeks at #BellLabs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
What comes through is his gratefulness for people he’d worked with, and opportunity they’d had to all experiment together in an open environment to explore the limits of new and emerging technologies. It’s a tale of curiosity, a playful sense of serendipity and the enduring value of a community.
https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

How come Plan 9 has a posse but Inferno does not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

#Plan9 #Inferno #OS #BellLabs #Limbo #9front

This was a well-spent 4.5 hours 🙇🏽🤩:

“Oral History Of Ken Thompson” [2025], Computer History Museum (https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4).

“A Computing Legend Speaks”, David Brock, CHM (https://computerhistory.org/blog/a-computing-legend-speaks/).

#Unix #BellLabs #C #OralHistory #ComputerHistory #KenThompson

🚨OMG, #Unix is a VIRUS!🚨 Apparently, Bell Labs hatched an evil plan to make everyone dependent on their "inexpensive" yet hilariously unreliable software. 😂 Guess the 70s were all about #disco and diabolical #code conspiracies! 🕺💻
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/U/Unix-conspiracy.html #Conspiracy #BellLabs #SoftwareHumor #HackerNews #ngated

@kurtsh when I worked at #BellLabs #BITD my white supervisor repeated that same #racist trope back in the 1980s. #makeracistsafraidagain #nyt be better

@kurtsh when I worked at #BellLabs #BITD my white supervisor repeated that same #racist trope back in the 1980s. #makeracistsafraidagain #nyt be better

@kurtsh when I worked at #BellLabs #BITD my white supervisor repeated that same #racist trope back in the 1980s. #makeracistsafraidagain #nyt be better

@kurtsh when I worked at #BellLabs #BITD my white supervisor repeated that same #racist trope back in the 1980s. #makeracistsafraidagain #nyt be better

@kurtsh when I worked at #BellLabs #BITD my white supervisor repeated that same #racist trope back in the 1980s. #makeracistsafraidagain #nyt be better

🧠 Before RISC vs. CISC. Before ARM dominance. Before the cloud. There was the Bellmac 32.

Now officially recognized as an IEEE Milestone, the Bellmac 32 helped define what 32-bit computing would become:

💾 Built in 1977 by Bell Labs, it was one of the earliest 32-bit microprocessors

🔐 Introduced memory protection and supervisor/user modes — setting the stage for modern OS security

🌐 Powered Unix systems, 5ESS telecom switches, and early internet infrastructure

🛠️ A foundational workhorse, now honored for the impact it had behind the scenes

It didn’t make headlines like the 8086 or the 68000 — but it should have. Hats off to the engineers who helped shape the future and are finally getting the recognition they deserve.

#IEEE #BellLabs #TechHistory #Microprocessors #Bellmac32

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone

🧠 Before RISC vs. CISC. Before ARM dominance. Before the cloud. There was the Bellmac 32.

Now officially recognized as an IEEE Milestone, the Bellmac 32 helped define what 32-bit computing would become:

💾 Built in 1977 by Bell Labs, it was one of the earliest 32-bit microprocessors

🔐 Introduced memory protection and supervisor/user modes — setting the stage for modern OS security

🌐 Powered Unix systems, 5ESS telecom switches, and early internet infrastructure

🛠️ A foundational workhorse, now honored for the impact it had behind the scenes

It didn’t make headlines like the 8086 or the 68000 — but it should have. Hats off to the engineers who helped shape the future and are finally getting the recognition they deserve.

#IEEE #BellLabs #TechHistory #Microprocessors #Bellmac32

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone

🧠 Before RISC vs. CISC. Before ARM dominance. Before the cloud. There was the Bellmac 32.

Now officially recognized as an IEEE Milestone, the Bellmac 32 helped define what 32-bit computing would become:

💾 Built in 1977 by Bell Labs, it was one of the earliest 32-bit microprocessors

🔐 Introduced memory protection and supervisor/user modes — setting the stage for modern OS security

🌐 Powered Unix systems, 5ESS telecom switches, and early internet infrastructure

🛠️ A foundational workhorse, now honored for the impact it had behind the scenes

It didn’t make headlines like the 8086 or the 68000 — but it should have. Hats off to the engineers who helped shape the future and are finally getting the recognition they deserve.

#IEEE #BellLabs #TechHistory #Microprocessors #Bellmac32

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone

🧠 Before RISC vs. CISC. Before ARM dominance. Before the cloud. There was the Bellmac 32.

Now officially recognized as an IEEE Milestone, the Bellmac 32 helped define what 32-bit computing would become:

💾 Built in 1977 by Bell Labs, it was one of the earliest 32-bit microprocessors

🔐 Introduced memory protection and supervisor/user modes — setting the stage for modern OS security

🌐 Powered Unix systems, 5ESS telecom switches, and early internet infrastructure

🛠️ A foundational workhorse, now honored for the impact it had behind the scenes

It didn’t make headlines like the 8086 or the 68000 — but it should have. Hats off to the engineers who helped shape the future and are finally getting the recognition they deserve.

#IEEE #BellLabs #TechHistory #Microprocessors #Bellmac32

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone

🧠 Before RISC vs. CISC. Before ARM dominance. Before the cloud. There was the Bellmac 32.

Now officially recognized as an IEEE Milestone, the Bellmac 32 helped define what 32-bit computing would become:

💾 Built in 1977 by Bell Labs, it was one of the earliest 32-bit microprocessors

🔐 Introduced memory protection and supervisor/user modes — setting the stage for modern OS security

🌐 Powered Unix systems, 5ESS telecom switches, and early internet infrastructure

🛠️ A foundational workhorse, now honored for the impact it had behind the scenes

It didn’t make headlines like the 8086 or the 68000 — but it should have. Hats off to the engineers who helped shape the future and are finally getting the recognition they deserve.

#IEEE #BellLabs #TechHistory #Microprocessors #Bellmac32

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bellmac-32-ieee-milestone

🚀 Bell Labs: where dreams came true before MBAs turned #innovation into a corporate zombie apocalypse 🧟‍♂️. This article nostalgically drags us through the hallowed halls, only to remind us that today's wannabe tech wizards are just casting spells with expired potions. 🙄✨
https://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked #BellLabs #CorporateZombie #Nostalgia #TechWizards #ExpiredPotions #HackerNews #ngated

@robpike

Tipping my hat, Sir.

#RobPike #BellLabs #unix #Plan9 #achievement

Visited Holmdel, NJ today. The former Bell Labs building is beautiful. #belllabs #bellworks

Die von #BrianKernighan zu Papier gebrachte Geschichte der #BellLabs in Murray Hill und des Wandels von der freien grundlageorientierten Forschung

-- aus der die besten Ergebnisse und Köpfe der #Informatik hervorgegangen sind, wie neben Ritchie und Thompson auch Hamming, Aho, Shannon und weitere --

in die anwendungsorientierte und idustrialisierte erinnert mich immer an die #GMD, die wie so viele andere Einrichtungen von größeren Gesellschaften übernommen wurde.

https://dpunkt.de/produkt/die-unix-story/

"Unix And Multics" [2019], Tom Van Vleck (https://www.multicians.org/unix.html).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315724

#Multics #Unix #BellLabs #OS #History #ComputerHistory #OperatingSystems

Great day at the #STEM icon #BellLabs (now #BellWorks) for the #NewJersey Undergrad. #Research Symposium!

Olivia Parlow presented our latest experiment on reducing people’s intentions to overuse #antibiotics — fantastic work and encouraging results!

More students from #StevensTech, #Caldwell #University, #FairleighDicksinson, and more presented interesting and actionable #science!

Thanks to NJcolleges.org for organizing!

#publicHealth #medicine #existentialRisk #bioethics #xPhi #philSci

"Interview With Ken Thompson, May 1999", Computer (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring03/cs333/thompson).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674931

#ComputerHistory #Unix #BellLabs #C #Plan9 #Limbo #Inferno #Linux #Interview #KenThompson

Always a pleasure to read this article (circa 1993) on the #history of #C by Dennis Ritchie – not sure why it’s on the front-page of #HackerNews today:

“The Development Of The C Language” (http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37442810

#BellLabs #PLDI #Unix #BCPL #B

Episódio 142 – Dossiê Unix – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/21/episodio-142-parte-b/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX

Episódio 142 – Dossiê Unix – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/21/episodio-142-parte-b/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX

Episódio 142 – Dossiê Unix – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/21/episodio-142-parte-b/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX

Episódio 142 – Dossiê Unix – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/21/episodio-142-parte-b/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX

Episódio 142 – Dossiê Unix – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/21/episodio-142-parte-b/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX

Episódio 142 – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/14/episodio-142-parte-a/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX #PVM #SCO #SGI

Episódio 142 – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/14/episodio-142-parte-a/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX #PVM #SCO #SGI

Episódio 142 – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/06/14/episodio-142-parte-a/

#Podcast #386BSD #A/UX #AIX #AlanCox #AlfredoKojima #Amiga #Android #Apple #AT&T #atarist #Be #BellLabs #BeOS #BSD #BSDi #CDE #Conectiva #COSE #DavidKorn #DEC #DennisRitchie #Desqview/X #dos #DOSEMU #dr-dos #Fuzix #GNU #HP/UX #IBM #IEEE #Intergraph #iOS #IPX #IRIX #ksh #LinusTorvalds #Linux #Lotus1-2-3 #Mach #Macintosh #MacOS #Motif #MPI #MUD #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #Novell #OpenLook #OSF #Pixar #POSIX #PVM #SCO #SGI

Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some pondering ...plus

#Luminary #eminent #innovator #belllabs #UNIX #programmer #excellence #cut_above_the_rest #inspiration #history_maker #brillance_personified

Hats off 🎩

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/association-for-computing-machinery_acmturingaward-acm-computing-activity-7027699563016650752-T4H3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

›They Have Played Us #Programmer|s for Absolute #Fool|s‹

🧷 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTiAWZ1YfzI&t=217s

🌺

🏷️ #Lisp #Scheme #CommonLisp #CPP #Rust #DennisRitchie #BrianKernighan #BjarneStroustrup #CLang #Rustacean #MetaProgramming #Risitas #JohnMcCarthy #Unix #Pipes #Segfault #NullPointer #UndefinedBehaviour #GarbageCollection #MemoryManagement #BellLabs #ObjectSystem #FunctionalProgramming #Syntax #Rustaceans #MemorySafety #ElRisitas #CLOS #AMOP

Integrated Circuit Manufacturing At Bell Labs In 1983 - With the never ending march of technological progress, arguably the most complex t... - https://hackaday.com/2022/08/23/integrated-circuit-manufacturing-at-bell-labs-in-1983/ #integratedcircuit #fabrication #belllabs #history #vintage #wafer

Retrotechtacular: The Forgotten Vacuum Tube A/D Converters of 1965 - In any era, the story of electronics has very much been about figuring out how to ... - https://hackaday.com/2022/06/08/retrotechtacular-the-forgotten-vacuum-tube-a-d-converters-of-1965/ #reflectedbinarycode #retrotechtacular #analongtodigital #deflectionplates #shadowmask #vacuumtube #belllabs #graycode #adc #att #crt

Anti-Gravity, Time Travel, and Teleportation: Dr. Hamming Gives Advice - You may not know the name [Richard Hamming], but you definitely use some of his wo... - https://hackaday.com/2021/06/01/anti-gravity-time-travel-and-teleportation-dr-hamming-gives-advice/ #hackadaycolumns #richardhamming #interviews #lifehacks #belllabs #research #hamming #lecture #career

I just found what could be a really cool way to build a website. #werc, by #BellLabs, "is a minimalist web anti-framework built following the #Unix and #Plan9 tool philosophy of software design." You can write your entire website using something like #markdown, the core codebase is only 150 lines, there are extensible apps that allow for comments, galleries, etc., you can run different (custom) versions of werc side-by-side, you can write your own apps, and so much more!

http://werc.cat-v.org/