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I did that exact routine so many times!

It's not really Silicon Valley anymore without Weird Stuff and Fry's.

Of course, the valley companies aren't really tech companies anymore either. Just adware wrapped in tech, so sad.

There are still quite a few companies in the valley doing actual silicon design. They aren't as flashy.

Early 2000s here but yes it contributed so much to my feeling that it was an engineer/hackers paradise. Now it’s all consolidated so much it feels like it’s just corporate. Hoping I’ll get the chance to find that sort of feeling sometime again in life. I hear shenzen is incredible for that since they still make stuff.

We did Costco hotdogs, with a soda, for lunch before Fry's/Weird Stuff ...

In the late 80s, as a student, we'd make a pilgrimage once in a while from Sacramento to the Bay Area just to visit Weird Stuff and Fry's.

Sac used to have an HSC! Anyone remember that? [edited phrasing]

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