I saw one of these guys at the market the other day. Looked to be around 50 years old. Tan cargo pants. Black shirt. Long flowing blonde/gray pony tail. It stopped me in my tracks. Like seeing an animal that you know had long gone extinct. I immediately knew he had an opinion on hard disk rotation speeds. An immense feeling of nostalgia and loss for a certain type of guy and a bygone era.

I feel fortunate that I moved to San Francisco 15 years ago and caught the very tail end of tech being weird and a bit nerdy. 

Every startup in 2010 still had a few developers with ponytails, desks covered with hand-painted Dragon Quest figurines, a CTO who did 80 hours of

Chris Bakke

I saw one of these guys at the market the other day. Looked to be around 50 years old. Tan cargo pants. Black shirt. Long flowing blonde/gray pony tail. It stopped me in my tracks. Like seeing an animal that you know had long gone extinct. I immediately knew he had an opinion on hard disk rotation speeds. An immense feeling of nostalgia and loss for a certain type of guy and a bygone era.
https://x.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1929954436744655276

this was and still is the palo alto farmers market, at least a couple years ago :)

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🥹 I'll have to go. You used to also reliably find them at Fry's Electronics until the chain shut down a few years ago.