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</font><font face="Arial" size="4"><strong>Internet Valley: Timeline of Key Events</strong> </font> </font></p> <p><b><font face="Calisto MT">A few points&nbsp; from recent IT history...</font></b>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;<a style="color: black; text-decoration: none; font-size: 9pt" style="text-decoration:none" href="javascript:windowFeedback()">by Gregory Gromov</a></p> <br> From the beginning of IT-history, a great deal of the IT key-solutions have been reaching worldwide market from California&#39;s <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/svhistory.html">Silicon Valley</a>. There are several different approaches to describe this general IT-tendency<br> <br> &nbsp;</blockquote> <table width="606" align="center" border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td width="165" bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <p align="center"><font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>First level: <strong>Community</strong></tt></font></td> <td width="212" bgcolor="#e3e3e3"> <p align="center"><font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>Second level:<br> <strong>Tech-TimeLine</strong></tt></font></td> <td width="217" bgcolor="#e7e7e7"> <p align="center"><font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>Third level:<br> <strong>Financial Concern</strong></tt></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="165" bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>The first level usually focuses on Silicon Valley&#39;s professional community.</tt></font></td> <td valign="top" width="212" bgcolor="#e3e3e3"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>The second level focuses on the main points of IT history. From this point the Silicon Valley is a high-tech region where the following key IT-solutions were launched:</tt></font></td> <td valign="middle" width="217" bgcolor="#e7e7e7"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>The third level of Silicon Valley history focuses on financial concerns</tt></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="165" bgcolor="#eeeeee" align="left" valign="top"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10">About half century ago <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.stanford.edu/">Stanford University</a> (Palo-Alto, California) had some financial problems.&nbsp;</tt></font><p> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www-forum.stanford.edu/history/History.html">Fred Terman</a> tried to solve the problems by leasing part of the university&#39;s land to high-tech companies for 99 years.&nbsp;</tt></font></p> <p><font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10">A quarter of century later this decision was called Silicon Valley&#39;s starting point.</tt></font></td> <td width="212" bgcolor="#e3e3e3" align="left" valign="top"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10">1908 the first&nbsp; vacuum tube triode was invented by Lee de Forest. He&nbsp; arrived in San Francisco Bay Area in 1910, and worked for the Federal Telegraph Company, which began developing the first global radio communications system in 1912. </tt></font><p><font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10">1971 the first microprocessor - 4004-chip, <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.intel.com/"> Intel,</a>&nbsp;</tt></font></p> <p><font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10">1976 the first Personal Computer - Apple-1, <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.apple.com/"> Apple Computer,</a></tt></font></td> <td width="217" bgcolor="#e7e7e7"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10"> PC revolution . December 1980, Apple goes public. Morgan Stanley and Co. and Hambrecht &amp; Quist underwrite an initial public offering of 4.6 million shares of Apple common stock at a price of $22 per share. Everyshare is bought within minutes of the offering, making this the largest public offering since Ford went public in 1956 <br> <br> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="10">WWW revolution. August 1995, Netscape Communications Corp., a 16-month-old Mountain View company was going public. Netscape issued 5 million shares to the public and kept another 33 million for executives, venture capitalists and other early backers. August,10 closing price left the company with market valuation of $1.96 billion &quot; It was the biggest IPO in history ... </tt></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="165" bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>The phrase Silicon Valley first appeared in 1971 in a series of articles that journalist <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/donhoefler.html">Don C Hoefler</a> wrote for Electronic News, a weekly industry tabloid.</tt></font></td> <td width="212" bgcolor="#e3e3e3"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>It looks like the story is not completed yet...</tt></font></td> <td width="217" bgcolor="#e7e7e7"> <font color="#400040" face="Arial" size="3"><tt>Gross Revenue: Now about 4,000 IT-related companies located along Highway 101 from <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/bayarea.html">San Francisco</a> to <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/bayarea.html">San Jose</a> generate approximately $200 billions in IT-related revenue annually</tt></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center">&nbsp;</p> <table width="380" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td width="100%" background="world2.gif"><font color="#400040" size="3"> <tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/!!!!gala.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="32" align="bottom" height="32"><strong>&nbsp;William Hewlett</strong> used the <em> <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/svhistory.html">supernova</a></em> concept to clarify his viewpoint to Silicon Valley history and named Lee de Forest the father of Silicon Valley.</tt></font></td> </tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <table width="601" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td width="599"><font color="#400040" size="3"><tt><strong>From our viewpoint</strong> the <em>supernova</em> is not merely a literature metaphor...&nbsp;<br> &quot;For a few decades after invention of the first radio-amplifier the total level of radio-emission from earth increased millions of times in comparison with the normal level of emission of a 300 Kelvin-degree planet. For the shortest time the Earth became #1 source of the radio-emission in the solar system &quot;(Joseph Shklovski, 1981).&nbsp; </tt> </font> <p><font color="#400040" size="3"><tt>So, if somebody is looking through a radio-telescope to the Solar system from another part of the galaxy, he can see the radio explosion like the birth of a new star on the Earth planet.</tt></font></td> </tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <table width="380" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><font color="#400040" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="9"> ...after all, do you have any idea what kind of astro-physical measurement can detect the other dimensions of the explosion triggered by computer as an intellectual amplifier. Then please <a style="text-decoration:none" href="javascript:windowFeedback()">share it with us</a> at least.</tt></font></td> </tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <table width="380" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td valign="bottom" width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font color="#400040" size="3"><tt>It was not too difficult to predict, where the next IT-wave would come from.&nbsp;</tt></font><p> <font color="#400040" size="3"><tt>To take a look at some of the new areas of business development of <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/bayarea.html">Silicon Valley Companies</a> was enough.&nbsp;</tt></font></p> <p><font color="#400040" size="3"><tt>However, to predict&nbsp; where the next IT- revolution will come from is no easy task now: </tt></font> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="600"><font color="#400040" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/mosaic.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="30" align="bottom" height="30">&nbsp;The <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/intval2.html">WWW project</a> was launched in Europe (<a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/intvalweb.html">March1989</a>),&nbsp;</tt></font><p> <font color="#400040" size="3"><tt> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/www_icon.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="40" align="bottom" height="40">&nbsp;The original version of user friendly Web brouser - <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html"> Mosaic</a> was developed in USA IL (Jan1993).&nbsp;</tt></font></p> <p><font color="#400040" size="3"><tt>&nbsp;Silicon Valley is explosively expanding its geographical borders:&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;</tt></font></td> </tr> </table> <table width="600" background="world2.gif" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td width="100%" background="world2.gif"> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="9">It was only a small part of <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/bayarea.html"> Palo-Alto</a> &#39;s Stanford University Park just half century ago.&nbsp;<br> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="9">It has become one of the fastest growing regions of California now....&nbsp;<p>According to the &quot;<font color="#0000FF">Silicon Valley Joint Venture Index 2000</font>&quot;&nbsp; the&nbsp; Silicon Valley's cities&nbsp;&nbsp; were located around the South side of San Francisco Bay:<br> <p align="center"><img src="http://www.netvalley.com/silicon_valley/images/maps/SV_Index_2000.jpg" width=550 border=0 alt="Silicon Valley Map 2000"></p> <p align="left">&nbsp;10 years later the above viewpoint of <i>Silicon Valley Joint Venture</i> was changed:&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <blockquote> <p align="left"><font face="Helvetica" color="#400040">The geographical boundaries of Silicon Valley vary. The region s core has been defined as Santa Clara County plus adjacent parts of San Mateo, Alameda and Santa Cruz Counties. In order to reflect the geographic expansion of the region s driving industries and employment, the 2011 Index includes all of San Mateo County. Silicon Valley is defined as the following cities: Santa Clara County (all) Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Sunnyvale Alameda County Fremont, Newark, Union City San Mateo County (all) Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Broadmoor, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Pacifica, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco, Woodside Santa Cruz County Scotts Valley Santa Clara San Jose Newark Fremont Union City. </font>&nbsp; <font color="#0000FF">The Silicon Valley Joint Venture&nbsp; Index 2011</font> </p> </blockquote> <p align="center">&nbsp;<img src="http://www.netvalley.com/silicon_valley/images/maps/Silicon_Valley_map_4.jpg" width=550 border=0 alt="Silicon Valley Map 4 - 2011"> </p> <p> <img src="http://www.netvalley.com/white_bu.gif" naturalsizeflag="0" width="12" align="bottom" height="9"> And there will not be any geographical borders for Silicon Valley&#39;s future, because... it&#39;s transforming itself to <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/intvalconcl.html">Internet Valley</a>, which is destroying any geographical limits for the new kind of human being.</td> </tr> </table> <p> <b>&nbsp;Timeline of events in the 100 years leading to Silicon Valley s creation </b> </p> <p>1848 the first year of the Gold Rush. All over the world spread rumors of fabulous gold reserves discovered on the west coast of North America. Gold was discovered in El Dorado County, not far from Sacramento, the current state capital of California, and  El Dorado entered the vocabulary of treasure-seekers around the world. </p> <p>1849 the first tens of thousands of the more adventurous of gold-seekers from all over America arrive in California, in what was at that time still a territory of Mexico. Not counting the Native Americans, only about 2000 Americans lived there at the time... Thus, the first tens of thousands of California gold seekers went down in history as the  Forty-niners .</p> <p>1850 California gains statehood, becomes known as "The Golden State ( California is also known variously as The Land of Milk and Honey, The El Dorado State, and The Grape State).</p> <p>1853 The number of new arrivals to California exceeds 300 thousand people...</p> <p>1872 as a result of the state s experience during the regulation of the more violent of business disagreements during the first two decades of the state s existence (as noted earlier, this experience was accrued particularly quickly in the first days of the Gold Rush, when the groundwork was laid for California s government) the California Civil Code was adopted, in which the state s lawmakers included a special provision guaranteeing the freedom of employees in the state of California to choose their own place of work. </p> <p>1891 Stanford University is founded by former governor of California Leland Stanford.</p> <p>1910  Lee de Forest arrives in San Francisco Bay Area. He was by then already well-known as the inventor of the triode (US Patent 879532, February 1908). Of all the influential inventions in the development of electronics and radio technology in the first half of the 20th century, the triode turned out to be the most critical component in the development of transcontinental telephone communications, radio, television, radar and early digital electronics.</p> <p>1951 Stanford Industrial Park is established as a high tech center by businesses working in close partnership with the university. Among the first companies to rent space in the Park were Varian Associates, General Electric, and Eastman Kodak.</p> <p>1956 William Shockley, co-inventor of the semiconductor triode arrived in San Francisco Bay Area and founds Shockley Semiconductor as a division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View. On the road to Silicon Valley s development, the baton was thus passed from Lee de Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube triode, to Shockley, inventor of the solid-state triode - transistor.</p> <p>1957 The  Traitorous Eight leave Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor.</p> <p>1968 Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce leave Fairchild Semiconductor to found Intel.</p> <p>1971 term  <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/svhistory.html">Silicon Valley</a> by the <a style="text-decoration:none" href="Don_Hoefler_coined_the_phrase_Silicon_Valley.html">press</a>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <br clear="all"> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=center align=middle width=878 bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=5> <P align=center><font size="1">© 1995 - 2011&nbsp; NetValley</font></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <div id="netv_right" width=600 STYLE="position:absolute; top:30px; left:847px; z-index:12"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><font size="2"><b>The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History.</b>&nbsp; By Gregory Gromov</font></p> <p><font size="2">1. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=1"> Internet Before World Wide Web</a></font><br> <font size="1">The First 130 Years: Atlantic cable, Sputnick, ARPANET,&quot;Information Superhighway&quot;, ... </font><br> <class="small2" align="left"><font size="2">2. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=2">World Wide Web as a Side Effect of Particle Physics Experiments.</a></font><br> <font size="1">World Wide Web was born in CERN ... </font><br> <font size="2">3. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=3">Next Crossroad of World Wide Web History</a></font><br> <font size="1">World Wide Web as a NextStep of PC Revolution ... from Steven P. Jobs to Tim Berners-Lee </font><br> <font size="2">4. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=4">Birth of the World Wide Web, Browser Wars, ...</a></font><br> <font size="1">Tim Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, Marc Andreessen, Browser Wars, ... </font><br> <font size="2">5. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=5">Early History of Hypertext</a></font><br> <font size="1">Hypertext Foundation of the World Wide Web: Vannevar Bush's hyperlink concept, Ted Nelson coins the word Hypertext, ... </font><br> <font size="2">6. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=6"> &quot;Living History&quot; of Hypertext. </a></font><br> <font size="1">Hypertext Saga of Theodor Holm Nelson: The Fate of Thinking Person in Silicon Valley ... </font><br> <font size="2">7. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=7">&quot;Xanadu&quot; Plan</a></font><br> <font size="1">The Nelson's Xanadu Plan to build a better World Wide Web</font><br> <font size="2">8. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=8"> Growth of the Internet: Statistics </a></font><br> <font size="1">Statistics of the Internet &amp; World Wide Web: Hosts, Domains, WebSites, Traffic, ... </font><br> <font size="2">9. <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=9"> Conclusion</a></font><br> <font size="1">What is the nature of World Wide Web? </font><br> <font size="2">10 <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=10"> Prehistory of the Internet</a><font color="#000000"> </font></font><br> <font size="1">Ancient Roads of&nbsp; the Telecommunications &amp; Computers </font> <br> <font size="2">11 <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=11">They said it ...</a> </font><br> <font size="1">People Wrote About This Book </font><br> &nbsp;</class="small2"></p> </div> </BODY></HTML>