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Bell labs revisited...

Here is an article in the Economist about early days at Bell Labs, where both C and Unix were invented. I remember the day I first set foot in the labs in 1989, as a summer intern, and I saw the names on the office doors. I could barely restrain myself from bowing low in homage to these software gods who walked among us mortals. After my graduation from Berkeley, I had the honor of working at the labs for five years, but I left when the labs fell apart in 1996, with the split of AT&T into three smaller companies. Today, the lab is just a hollow shell and almost all of the researchers who gave it its soul have left (mostly for Google!)

posted by S. Keshav @ Tuesday, July 27, 2004