50 years ago Silicon Valley was not Silicon Valley. We called it San Jose and it was one of the most boring places imaginable. The highlights were the Winches

50 years ago Silicon Valley was not Silicon Valley. We called it San Jose and it was one of the most boring places imaginable. The highlights were the Winchester mystery house and the 3 story Chuck E Cheese. I'm still mildly astonished at what it turned it to - go walk around it sometime and wonder how a grey foggy miles of concrete turned into the epicenter of the digital world. In retrospect the combo of Cal and Stanford may have made it inevitable, but it's still a dump.