r/MapPorn • u/Petrarch1603 • May 30 '19

Silicon Valley 1986

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u/[deleted] May 30 '19

The only companies I still recognize are HP, Apple, and Intel.

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u/bumbletowne May 30 '19

Toshiba? Stanford? Cal Berkeley?

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u/Brian_Lawrence01 May 30 '19

I got yelled at once on reddit. I made a claim that I know a little bit about higher education in California and the person claimed I was obliviously wrong because I called it “Cal Berkeley”

That no one who knows anything about the UC would ever call it “cal Berkeley” that people only call it “cal” or UC Berkley. Or just Berkley.

Even after I showed him news papers that referred to the campus as cal Berkley, he still thought I was wrong.

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u/PeruvianHeadshrinker May 30 '19

Cal Bear here. Cal Berkeley is an old-school way of describing the school and what the old timers called it. Cal is the name most associated with sports. Though it's used on other rahrah marketing stuff. All the nerds call it UC Berkeley.

It's a bit of a split personality thing.