In 1999, when I was doing individual consulting in SV, it was so challenging to find a place to stay in west bay. The landlord asked me to pay rent with options from those white hot B2B companies (CommerceOne, Ariba, etc)
Yes, when everything came to the end, I flew home (in MidWest) with a 17" monitor from a Sun Sparc. A year or two later, recycled it through BestBuy.
