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So there's silicon alley in NY, silicon prairie in the midwest, silicon forest in portland, what do we call Jersey?
by meggar 9y ago
So there's silicon alley in NY, silicon prairie in the midwest, silicon forest in portland, what do we call Jersey?
- thrillgore 9y agoTelecom Alley, given that much of the tech jobs at the time were through Bell Labs and affiliates Or we could just call it uninhabitable.
- walshemj 9y agowasn't it called Route 128 ?
- ghaff 9y agoRoute 128 is in Massachusetts. (The term isn't really used any more because it doesn't correspond to where many/most companies are actually located--it only did to some degree even when the term was in vogue.)
- TFortunato 9y agoYep...seems most of what I hear when people from Massachusetts (myself included) when we talk about where we work to outsiders is either "In Boston", or "Right Outside Boston / Near Boston / The Boston Area" (For anything east of Worcester it seems, haha)
- aswanson 9y agoThe highway between DC and New York.
- madcaptenor 9y agoIf you wanted to confuse the hell out of people, you could call it "Silicon Garden", after the state's nickname, the Garden State.
- acjohnson55 9y agoOf course, it's only really confusing if your only touch points in the state are I-95 and US-1. A small handful of miles either direction off the Northeast Corridor, and the state earns its nickname.
- madcaptenor 9y agoI grew up in South Jersey and I agree that it does earn that nickname! But so many people only see New Jersey as a place to pass through and so they don't see it.
- seabj0rn 9y agoI grew up not far away from Bell Labs, very close to the Jersey Shore. Growing up, I remember friends' parents who worked in telecom refer to our area as Silicon Shore.
- seabj0rn 9y agoI grew up not far away from Bell Labs, very close to the Jersey Shore. Growing up, I remember friends' parents who worked in telecom refer to our area as Silicon Shore.
- eludwig 9y agoSilicon Turnpike? disclaimer: I live in NJ and commute to NY, yes - to work for a big financial concern. Lo and behold, I was just informed that my company is moving a ton of staff to a new Jersey "campus." They have likened the new facility to google or Facebook (although, knowing stuffy finance, I have my doubts ;)
- 0xfeba 9y agoSilicon armpit
- jpmattia 9y agoBack in the late 1990s during the telecom boom, the gov came out to the Holmdel Bell Labs bldg to proclaim the area be called "Photon Valley". The name didn't quite stick.
- OliverJones 9y agoTransistorland (for one Bell Labs invention)? UNIX shore (for another)? Claude and Harry's neighborhood (for Shannon and Nyquist)? The trouble is, the state's name now is Christie's Fiefdom, and that has to fade away.
- Akarnani 9y agoSilicon Shore? of I recall what people were saying a few years ago..
- devmunchies 9y agoDon't forget Silicon Slopes in Utah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Slopes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Slopes
- mdellavo 9y agoThe area carved out by Routes 78, 24 and 287 was once called the research triangle of NJ
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- santaclaus 9y ago> what do we call Jersey Silicon Disco Fries