TheWorldsLargestWebsite.com, located in the centre of town and featuring thousands upon thousands of long, scrolling pages of text and images, is an impressive computer-age curio. But to the people of Sunnyvale it’s much more than just a roadside attraction: It’s a point of pride – and an economic boon – in a corner of Silicon Valley that has been all but forgotten since the late ’90s.. More »
The Silicon Valley Fight Club has been around for quite a while now, but this documentary shows the grown up nerds actually fighting. They smash keyboards on each other, use vacuums in fights, anything really. It sounds like a joke, I know, but watch the documentary, this club really exists and means a lot to these people. More »
This is the Palo Alto, CA garage where two young Stanford engineering grads named Bill Hewlett and David Packard started building what would one day become the world’s largest PC manufacturer. In 2000, HP turned it into a museum. More »
We all owe a lot to this place. The birth of the world’s first silicon chip happened here, and now, it’s a nice place to pick up some fresh produce. Bits has a great history of the site–now known as the Fiesta Super Market at 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View (home also to the big G). It used to be the world’s first semiconductor lab, established by the American physicist William Shockley and where the founders of Fairchild and Intel got their chops. But now? Just a couple of marks on the sidewalk indicate its past, among all the fine fruits and veggies.
