This place is amazing, not just for the impressive array of early telephone and communications systems assembled here, but for the fact that a lot of it actually works. The volunteer staff at the Museum of Communications, formerly the Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum, leads tours of the facility and can also be seen restoring and maintaining the equipment.
It may look like a charming rambler, tucked away in a Bellevue neighborhood. But there’s something a little different about this house: the world’s largest online retailer was born here. That’s right: Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, originally called Cadabra, in the house’s converted garage while renting it in the mid-1990s.
For many years, Microsoft placed plaques in the sidewalk for nearly every piece of software it developed. Taken as a whole, the hundreds of markers tell the story of the company’s rise to the top of the software industry in the 1980s and 1990s. It features plaques not only for hits (MS-DOS, Windows 95) but also flops (Microsoft Bob).
It’s not exactly the Smithsonian in scale, but the customer service center at the Japanese video-game giant’s North American headquarters features a small museum of classic Nintendo consoles, games and memorabilia.
The birthplace of Seattle’s wireless industry, Carillon Point is an office and commercial complex with incredible views across Lake Washington. No wonder Craig McCaw chose it as the headquarters of McCaw Cellular, which later became AT&T Wireless.
This recently revamped and relocated facility showcases Microsoft products, past and present, and offers a chance to play Xbox 360 games on a giant screen. Across the hall is the company store, also recently relocated, where the public can buy merchandise but not software or hardware, which are sold at an employee discount.
This building, named after Microsoft’s co-founder, is the region’s nerve center for computer science education, sending graduates to Microsoft, Google, Amazon and many others.
This dorm was at the forefront a social media revolution. Brad Fitzpatrick was a University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering student in 1999 when he developed the pioneering LiveJournal blogging service, working primarily in this building, Mercer Hall East.
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OK, so N. 34th Street isn’t really the Center of the Universe for technology, but it’s in the “Center of the Universe,” Seattle’s irreverent Fremont neighborhood, and there’s a remarkable number of technology and life sciences companies located in this corridor.
Modeled after the underlying structure of DNA, this pedestrian bridge is a pathway to Amgen’s massive waterfront campus, and a symbol of Seattle’s biotech dreams. The California biotech giant obtained the property — once owned by the Port of Seattle — as part of its $16 billion acquisition of Immunex in 2001.
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