Comment by beowulfey

My dad worked as an engineer at Corning in the 80s and 90s. In addition to their general glass expertise (the museum is really incredible and I highly recommend it) Corning’s importance in the early days of the internet is pretty amazing and I think not as well known. They basically built all the earliest fiber optics cabling for communication networks. We lived in the town of Corning and had a fiber internet connection in our house that my dad was testing back then. They are a super cool company and I will always appreciate them as an example of one that does one thing, really well (glass) but managed to grow by finding more and more uses for their speciality.