San Jose is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California...
Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was inhabited by the Ohlone people. San Jose was founded on 29 November 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first city founded in the Californias. Following the American Conquest of California and its subsequent statehood in 1850, San Jose became the state's first capital. Following World War II, San Jose experienced an economic boom, with a rapid population growth and aggressive annexation of nearby cities and communities carried out in the 1950s and 1960s. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further accelerated the transition from an agricultural center to an urbanized metropolitan area....
San Jose is a center of innovation and has earned the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley". Major global tech companies are headquartered in San Jose, including Cisco Systems, eBay, Cadence Design Systems, Adobe Systems, PayPal, Brocade, Samsung, Acer, and Western Digital.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose%2C_California
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Image 1: SJ skyline at night by Ben Loomis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SJ_skyline_at_night_horizontal.jpg
Image 2: Downtown Skyline from Oak Hill by HarshLight
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Skyline_from_Oak_Hill_(cropped2).jpg
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