Ask HN：谁还记得 Fry's Electronics——IT 人心中的“圣地”？
3 分•作者: netfortius•4 个月前
不知何故，我今天想起了2000年初第一次去圣何塞参加SANS学院课程的经历，以及在那里发现了Fry's Electronics商店。商店里琳琅满目的电脑硬件和相关工具，是我在那之前在世界任何地方都未曾见过的。
然而，最美好的回忆却来自于我——一个芝加哥人——得知我们也将拥有自己的Fry's商店的时候。当时，极客社区的兴奋之情溢于言表，我们甚至会分享正在施工的工地、然后是位于Downers Grove的建筑（一砖一瓦）的进展照片。
我们曾经称那个地方为“IT人的教堂”，因为我们会在周末去那里，待上“弥撒”所需的时间，甚至更久。
时光荏苒！
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For some reason I remembered today my first trip to San Jose, in the early 2000s, for a SANS Institute class, and discovering the Fry's Electronics store. The amazing content of what one could use to build own computers, or tools for use with such, was like nothing else I have ever seen, anywhere else in the world where I've been, up until that point.<p>Some of the best related memories, though, come from the time when - as Chicagoan - I learned we will be getting our own Fry's. The excitement in the geeks community was so great, at the time, that we were sharing pictures of the progress of the actual lot being worked on, then the building (walls by walls), in Downers Grove.<p>We used to call the place "the church of IT people", simply because we would go there over the weekend, and stay over for the "mass" (equivalent time) and then some.<p>O tempora!