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   John DeTreville ✅ (detreville@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 23:08:58 JST John DeTreville ✅

   Silicon Valley archaeology on a Sunday afternoon: Meta’s HQ was originally Sun Microsystems’, until Oracle bought Sun and Facebook bought its buildings. To make a statement, Facebook updated the front of the old Sun Microsystems sign, facing the road, but left its decaying back untouched.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 23:16:19 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @detreville Someone online once made the joke about frontend/backend.
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     John DeTreville ✅ (detreville@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 23:17:17 JST John DeTreville ✅

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     Sun certainly used to be all over the place (and I remember when it was all/mostly at one place on Rengstorff). Here’s a sign on an old Google building that used to be an old Sun building.

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     John DeTreville ✅ (detreville@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 23:17:19 JST John DeTreville ✅

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     BTW, I’ve been fascinated by this old sign for some time now. The insides used to be much cruftier, as shown in these photos. Facebook/Meta have cleaned it up since then and fixed some bent metal in the old Sun sign.