> On the 10th of July in 2003, SGI vacated and leased their headquarters to Google.
I was around to witness the he tail end of that office space transition (on the incoming side at Google). It was surreal to be sitting in the physical carcass of a company I had long fantasized about (in part due to their marketing via Hollywood).
In retrospect it was ironic because a company that was based on selling very expensive high performance compute (SGI) was being physically replaced by a company selling (albeit indirectly) very cheap high performance compute.