"The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer. Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day... i got in."

Funny timing: I saw Koyaanisqatsi for the first time tonight, and there’s a section where it cuts from satellite images of a city to microchips (https://youtu.be/RSINqSvSVyM?t=402)

It made me want to look up more pics of chips, but after not getting good results searching on my own I gave up and came to HN... only to immediately see this post :)

I guess you'll enjoy this one too: https://zeptobars.com/en/read/AD9361-SDR-Analog-Devices-DAC-...

There's a reason why "circuit as a city" used to be a common visual metaphor in pop culture when computers came up. E.g. this scene from the Hackers:

https://youtu.be/IESEcsjDcmM?t=135