I always found it to be a fun coincidence that San Jose, CA, now the heart of Silicon Valley, was founded in 1777--a year after the US Declaration of Independen

I always found it to be a fun coincidence that San Jose, CA, now the heart of Silicon Valley, was founded in 1777--a year after the US Declaration of Independence. And that was right at the beginning of the colonization of "Upper" California by parties from New Spain (Mexico). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Jose,_California https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Jose,_Californi...