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Yeah, it's weird, NJ is pretty well-known for having iconic Diners. People from many different states will know about NJ diners. https://www.tastingtable.com/1

• fipar 6mo ago
  And people not even from the states (like me) know about NJ diners because one saw the birth of Unicode :)
  • koolba 6mo ago
    > … 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 https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
    • fipar 6mo ago
      Yup! That's what I was thinking about. In fact I did read this right before posting (though I had found it at https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history) but only to validate that it had been in a NJ diner, so I missed my confusion of UTF-8 with Unicode. I would not make a good fact-checker :(
  • caymanjim 6mo ago
    It's virtually guaranteed that much of the birth of Unix itself took place at NJ diners.
• ascagnel_ 6mo ago
  I'm shocked that Tops earned #1 -- they did a remodel a few years ago and started taking reservations (and turning people away during busy periods if they didn't have one), and it's much less of a diner and much more of a restaurant nowadays. Also, the Bendix Diner is closed, likely permanently, because of fire code violations.