Silicon Valley was once just empty land with orchards and little traffic. Now, it's become the epicenter of innovation and technology.
Silicon Valley hasn’t always been home to techies and Teslas. However, its desire for openness, abundance, and beauty has always been a constant, as shown in this 1978 photo of a tech campus in Santa Clara.In the 1970s, Silicon Valley"was this obscure little place, where it was gearhead engineers selling to gearhead engineers who used chips," author Leslie Berlin told Recode in 2017. Her book"Troublemakers" focuses on the region during 1969 to 1983.
"Within not even a dozen years: The video game industry was born; the personal computer industry was born," said Berlin."It’s like you're watching the Big Bang."Ted Streshinsky/Corbis via Getty ImagesStanford University, especially its Research Institute, had a longstanding tradition of producing entrepreneurial engineers before the tech boom. Many Stanford grads went on to found million-dollar tech companies.
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