Animated timeline shows how Silicon Valley became a $2.8 trillion neighborhood

Silicon Valley is an almost three trillion dollar neighborhood thanks to companies like Apple Google and Tesla but it wasn't always this way [Music] in the late 1800s san francisco's port helps make it a hub of the early Telegraph and radio industries in 1909 San Jose became the home of one of the country's first radio stations in 1933 the Navy purchased Moffett Field to dock and maintain the USS Makin this made Moffett Field a major hub for the early days of the aerospace industry many scientists and researchers all found work in the area in 1939 the Ames Research Center was founded in the area and it became home to the world's largest wind tunnel in 1949 also in 1939 William Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett Packard in Palo Alto which originally made oscillators then during World War two Hewlett Packard made radar and artillery technology at this point computers were about the size of a room in the 1940s William Shockley Co invented the transistor wall at Bell Labs the transistor is now known as the computer processor in 1956 Shockley left Bell and founded his own company Shockley semiconductor labs it was the first company to make transistors on a silicon and not germanium the company was founded in Mountain View California so Shockley could be closer to Jacque Lee's company employed many recent graduates from Stanford 1957 Shockley employees grew tired of his demeanor and left the company Shockley called this group the traitorous eight they partnered with Sherman Fairchild to create Fairchild Semiconductor in the early 1960s Fairchild helped make computer components for the Apollo program later in the decade many of the traders eight left Fairchild including Gordon Moore and Robert notes who in 1968 founded their own company in Santa Clara called Intel soon after other X Fairchild employees and traders eight members helped found AMD and venture fund kleiner perkins in 1969 the Stanford Research Institute became one of the four nodes of ARPANET a government research project that would go on to become the Internet in 1970 Xerox opened up Park lab in Palo Alto Park invented early computing tech including Ethernet computing and the graphical user interface in 1971 journalist Don Hossler titled a three-part report on the semiconductor industry Silicon Valley USA the name stuck in the 1970s companies like Atari Apple and Oracle were all founded in the area in the 1980s Silicon Valley became the widely accepted center of the computer integer eBay Yahoo PayPal and Google are just some of the companies founded in the area in the 1990s with Facebook Twitter and Tesla joining them the following decade the growth of the tech industry in the area continues to this day [Music]

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Length: 3min 54sec (234 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 05 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/CodeOfKonami]

Woold Woll Two

[u/drunxor]

Now if only you didn't have to be a millionaire to live there

[u/razorbackgeek]

If you wanna know more about the Fairchild Eight watch this. http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/videos/silicon-valley-rebels/32711

[u/FCGrabo]

I don't understand why there are English subtitles while the narrator is speaking English.