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Silicon Valley is not a clearly defined place. It could be just Palo Alto or as far away as the rest of the southern Bay Area, from Berkeley all the way around to San Francisco. The main thing is that the region is the center of the technological renaissance in microchip and internet innovation. Its postwar ascension came from government investment and eventually venture capital as technology revolutionized our world.
This is the final episode of my California history series, which you can see the rest here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru
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19:15 that is Java, not JavaScript - Sun Micro made Java, Mozilla made JavaScript and used the name to garner some attention away from Sun - they are separate things (thx efkastner)
*Bibliography*
Leslie Berlin, _Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age_ (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017). amzn.to/3CMUYzT
Malcolm Harris, _Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World_ (New York: Little Brown and Company, 2023). amzn.to/3LbrPUg
Margaret Pugh O'Mara, _The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America_ (New York: Penguin Press, 2019). amzn.to/46uNZJh
Dan Schiller, _Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications from the Post Office to the Internet_ (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023). amzn.to/46MYNTv
Niel Stephenson, _In the Beginning… was the Command Line_ (New York: Avon Books, 1999). amzn.to/3Y4QBd0
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Albuquerque history: youtu.be/nxqBDy827U0
jOBS review: youtu.be/yxgLzaZlUXo
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Wiki: Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley.[1][2][3] San Jose is Silicon Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the 12th-most populous in the United States.[4] Other major Silicon Valley cities include Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Cupertino
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Hashtags: #history #SiliconValley #technology #california
chapters
0:00 intro and promo
2:29 origins
5:23 transistors
7:51 hackers
12:38 apple vs pc
16:11 politics
17:24 internet
22:27 smartphones
24:47 now
25:29 outro
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Silicon Valley is not a clearly defined place. It could be just Palo Alto or as far away as the rest of the southern Bay Area, from Berkeley all the way around to San Francisco. The main thing is that the region is the center of the technological renaissance in microchip and internet innovation. Its postwar ascension came from government investment and eventually venture capital as technology revolutionized our world.
This is the final episode of my California history series, which you can see the rest here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru
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19:15 that is Java, not JavaScript - Sun Micro made Java, Mozilla made JavaScript and used the name to garner some attention away from Sun - they are separate things (thx efkastner)
*Bibliography*
Leslie Berlin, _Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age_ (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017). amzn.to/3CMUYzT
Malcolm Harris, _Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World_ (New York: Little Brown and Company, 2023). amzn.to/3LbrPUg
Margaret Pugh O'Mara, _The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America_ (New York: Penguin Press, 2019). amzn.to/46uNZJh
Dan Schiller, _Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications from the Post Office to the Internet_ (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023). amzn.to/46MYNTv
Niel Stephenson, _In the Beginning… was the Command Line_ (New York: Avon Books, 1999). amzn.to/3Y4QBd0
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Connected videos
California history series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru
Albuquerque history: youtu.be/nxqBDy827U0
jOBS review: youtu.be/yxgLzaZlUXo
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Wiki: Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley.[1][2][3] San Jose is Silicon Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the 12th-most populous in the United States.[4] Other major Silicon Valley cities include Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Cupertino
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Hashtags: #history #SiliconValley #technology #california
chapters
0:00 intro and promo
2:29 origins
5:23 transistors
7:51 hackers
12:38 apple vs pc
16:11 politics
17:24 internet
22:27 smartphones
24:47 now
25:29 outro
