I wanted to work at Atari. They went out of business. I wanted to work at DEC. They went out of business. I wanted to work at SGI. They went out of business.

Where do you want to work now?

I hope it's Oracle.

Nice tip!

Yeah, them or Fox News.

I'd also like know which companies I should short.

I know quite a few people that have pretty much stayed working in exactly those same buildings for 25+ years.

Same window, same view, same job, new business cards.

Hazy memories: electropaint; doing some graphics with my housemate after a grateful dead concert. (I seem to recall playing with the water worm from "The Abyss" and its texture map having been the interior of The Tied House from downtown mountain view.)

When I graduated in 1995, HP and SGI were the dream job companies. Over the years as their fortunes started fading, I would see them slowly consolidate. SGI went down the progressively smaller offices over the next two decades. I think an SGI site in Mountain View are now used by Google HQ and another HP site down by Cupertino will soon by Apple HQ. Maybe there is a legacy being passed through each respectively ;)

Sun SPARCstations were cool too.

Yeah forgot about Sun...

And Apollo. And Thinking Machines. And Lisp Machines / Symbolics.

Same feeling, here. In 1998, I interned in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, working for SGI acquisition, "Cray Research, a Silicon Graphics Company". From 2000-2005, I worked in Sacramento, California, for HP, in a division which would later get split off into HPE.

Google is the dream job of a lot of people now :).