Trevor Long spends an afternoon checking out as many major tech headquarters - we visit eBay, Netflix, Google, Facebook, Apple and more - is this Nerd Tourism?
I visited Baltimore (Maryland) on the eastcoast and that area also has an insane amount of tech companies there to my surprise. It’s literally the eastcoast version of Silicon Valley. Austin Texas is another very good area for tech from what I’ve seen but Baltimore is definitely a close second behind Silicon Valley for sure. Baltimore seems to have a shit ton of IT security and cybersecurity tech companies out there. I’m assuming due to the massive governmental population that’s there and the close proximity to Washington DC. You should check out Baltimore.
Most of the buildings Google are in started out as a company called Silicon Graphics. Later Sun Microsystems occupied some of those buildings. Then Sun Micro occupied a new campus out by the Dumbarton bridge which later became Facebook headquarters. Sun Micro and Silicon Graphics made highend computers in the 80's and 90's. I remember delivering to Google in their 1st 2 building on Salida road. I think in the 90's. Also, Atari, Yahoo, Amdahl, Intel, and AMD started in Sunnyvale. Memorex started in Santa Clara. Cisco, Netscape, Symantec-Norton and Fairchild started in Mountain View
I visited and on a Sunday, I visited xerox Park I remember meeting security guard and offered him some donuts , he gave me a tour of the whole place and let me walk outside the building , that was priceless this is where Steve Jobs saw The mouse, gui icons and much more.. After, that I continued on to Santa Cruz. I perfect day… Downey California
SO basically Silicon Valleys district separated by area from toll or highway, and you need to take exit for every big company you visit since they in different areas but still Silicon Valley?
If you look up Santa Clara valley it is the same valley between the outer coast range or Santa Cruz mountains and the outer coast range or Hamilton range. Multiple cities all tied together its resembles one large city.
I remember they started in a former car dealership in Menlo Park on the El Camino. I think it was an Olds or Buick shop? They had just 2 garages where they converted Lotus roadsters to Electric. I think they made just 50 or 200 of them? I think they only leased them you could not own them?
