[oaktowner]

I worked at Google from 2013 to 2020. There were definitely employees (maybe a majority) who assumed that Google would always be the dominant force in technology. Those of us who were a bit older always understood that everything changes in Silicon Valley.

Those buildings represented that change to me. I can remember coming to concerts at the Shoreline in the 90s and looking at those Silicon Graphics buildings: they looked so cool, and they represented the cutting edge of technology (at the time). And yet...it all disappeared.

Same goes for the Sun campus which is where Meta/Facebook is now. Famously, the Facebook entrance sign is literally the same old Sun sign, just turned around! [0]

So I always cautioned co-workers: this too, shall pass. Even Google.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/why-suns-logo-is-on-the-back...

[dbreunig]

Meta still has the Silicon Graphics logos on a few glass conference room doors in building 16, I believe. At least they were there in 2012.

Great memento mori.

[samatman]

Presumably you mean the Sun logo: http://www.logobook.com/logo/sun-microsystems/

Which is one of the all-time greats IMHO. I'd keep it around too.

[dbreunig]

I do! Thanks!