Animated timeline shows how Silicon Valley became a $2.8 trillion neighborhood
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- Silicon Valley is a name that is synonymous with the technology industry, but when and how did this small area of California become the center of the tech world? The area's transformation happened gradually, over a period of more than 100 years. Here's how.
Silicon Valley is an almost $3 trillion neighborhood thanks to companies like Apple, Google, and Tesla. But it wasn't always this way.
In the late 1800s, San Francisco's port helped make it a hub of the early telegraph and radio industries. In 1909, San José became home to one of the US's first radio stations. In 1933, the Navy purchased Moffett Field to dock and maintain the USS Macon. 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Also in 1939, William Hewlett and Dave Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, which originally made oscilloscopes. Then, during World War II, HP made radar and artillery technology. At this point, computers were about the size of a room.
In the 1940s, William Shockley coinvented the transistor while 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 out of silicon and not germanium. The company was founded in Mountain View, California - so Shockley could be closer to his sick mother. Shockley's company employed many recent grads of Stanford.
In 1957, eight Shockley employees grew tired of his demeanor and left the company. Shockley called the 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 "Traitorous Eight" left Fairchild and founded their own companies. Including Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, who in 1968 founded their own company in Santa Clara called Intel. Soon after, other ex-Fairchild employees and "Traitorous Eight" members helped found AMD, Nvidia, 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 its PARC lab in Palo Alto. PARC invented early computing tech, including ethernet computing and the graphical user interface. In 1971, journalist Don Hoefler titled a 3-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 industry. eBay, Yahoo, PayPal, and Google are just some of the companies founded in the area in the 1990s With Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and Tesla joining them the following decade. The growth of the tech industry in the area continues to this day.
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I love California is home to the world's smartest and dumbest people, Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
Rather.... Conservatives, and liberal leftists/Marxists.
Well, the Bay Area is where smart people go to get rich (off big companies), and Hollywood is where assholes go to get rich (off insulting people). 😂
Silicon Valley is taking over Hollywood/LA.. Google Silicon beach..
SkylineToTheSeaAndMe the whole silicon valley (major cities like san francisco, San Jose, Cupertino, Palo alto, etc are all ran by democrats. Not 100% sure since i don’t live in so cal but i am pretty sure la and most of the la county is ran by democrats. So both parts are democratic. Also don’t know if u wanted to know but the silicon valley is the most expensive part of the U.S if we are talking about housing, and land. Food prices and other necessities are bit more expensive than the rest of california but not extremely high like NYC or other cities.
Eduardo Juarez Orange County, and Simi Valley are pretty conservative compared to those areas but not so much as it used to be.
You know you're in Silicon Valley when Teslas are as common as BMW's/Mercedes & the occasional Super Exotic Sports car drives by.
Nacho TV Where I live, all I see are google bikes, Toyota Priuses, a lot of Asians, Boba, In n' out, and Stanford apparel
Nacho TV and like every kid in the neighborhood can be seen wizzing around on segway hoverboards with bob in hand in the afternoon
ShadyPebblez or seeing someone on a Segway while walking their dog 🐕
I used to live in Cupertino...and yes you are right, everyone except a few people including me
I live in Santa Clara and this is true lol
I'm not sure how IBM was left off of this list. For anyone who grew up in the early 80s, you know that San Jose was dominated by IBM, while orchards and open fields still dominated the San Jose landscape.
IBM was a major player in Silicon Valley since 1939 (and 1943 when they chose SJ as the site of their West Coast Headquarters). It's the reason my family is here since 1959. My Dad worked at the plant site (opened 1953 I believe) on Cottle Road, and later Santa Teresa Laboratory (now called the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory) off Bailey Avenue from 1959 to 1992. People don't realize that Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the IBM Plant site on Cottle Road in 1959 (just after my father was hired). He ate lunch with Khrushchev in the IBM cafeteria (a table or two over and not really with him per se', just nearby): to.pbs.org/2xIjfpn tinyurl.com/ybvdv3hy
I was employee at IBM 1995 to 1996, making $30k a year and a house is $300K, now I am making $300K the same house is $2 million.
Agree Rwc all flower glass houses. Horse town on woodside rd.
@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO who's your dad
@@amitpuri3002 - Just an engineer who worked on some projects at IBM.
When I was a kid I thought it was the place fake boobs were made.
Fooku Sueme it isnt?
Silicone Valley, Bevery Hills, California. lol
ha
Fake boobs are not made in silicon valley but the people there do buy a lot of them.
sexist jokes r not PC.... stop this..
"It wasn't always this way"
>Proceeds to explain how Silicon Valley has always been a hub for technology
It didn't start early enough...go back far enough and it was just orchards and farms for San Francisco.
If you go far back enough then there's no technology anywhere now is there.
Late 1800s, eh, as good as since forever, right?
LOL this! I mean it's been a hub for technology ever since we any form of tech.
It started after WW II.
1:26 "The transistor is now known as the computer processor" This is incorrect. Transistors are a major component in computer CPUs.
Simplifying for the rubes rarely works.
They could have said "Transistors are a major component in computer chips" That would have worked too.
icwiz or "a CPU consists of many "gajillion" transistors". They didn't even have to mention CPUs. In the end, the importance was that transistors enabled much smaller, faster and more efficient computers. That was the main point.
Yeah, but that sentence was factually incorrect. A channel called "Tech Insider" should do better.
Immediately looked for this comment... seems tech insider often makes these little mistakes
Where are Pied Piper and Hooli? 😂😂
Brenda Shawol for real man. Like where is Aviato?
Brenda Shawol Yo where is aviato
Brenda Shawol JIN-YANG
I though this name was spelled Jian Yang.
Brenda Shawol i attained bachelord in comp science engineering in 2008 esp embedded system and shifted career into medical engineering and now law. Do u guys think shall i go back to embedded system /comp. Field if it has lots of earning potential. ? Do patent lawyers make more money or techie
I remember when my house was 600k & now it’s $1.4 mil
(in Santa Clara)
For real
@@Amharizz How about East Palo Alto homes at 200K in 2004, and now in 2020 1.5 mil...
Dammmnm
Also Santa Clara. My folks bought theirs for $210k, I think the market price is close to $1.7mil these days?
I found a mansion for 155M
so basically, we will never get to own a house there
Alexander Nadeau even if you could..property taxes would be $$$
Nacho TV exactly
Alexander Nadeau No theyre only $2-4 Million I live there
I live like 30 minutes away from Palo Alto and you're lucky if you can rent a house for under $3000
Alexander Nadeau Never say never :^)
should have not sold our family home in '97. *sigh*
Damn, you could have been making tons of passive income today.
what a regret.. (°~°)
While you could definitely be making more now, 1997 was during the dot com industry boom, so the market was still really good back then and I hope you found a good deal.
My father was part of the first big wave of electrical engineers moving into Silicon Valley in the 1950's - working at Sylvania and Fairchild Semi. He explained that one of the reasons why Silicon Valley was able to succeed so much was because the people weren't stuck with the social strictures of life on the east coast - going to church on Sunday, having to go to Grandmas for supper, etc. They could do whatever they damn well pleased, and it allowed them to think outside the box.
That explains why it’s so full of degenerates and spiritually dead people
Going to grandmas for supper sounds really nice...
@@Willyk200921 why do you call them that?
going to Church is a good thing
It was the Geography and Natural Beauty/ Natural Environment, Ocean, Mountains, Bay, Redwood Forests, Lakes, Tahoe, Sunshine, Low Humidity, Wineries, Every kind of Geography from cool to hot, desert to Sea, etc. etc. etc. lots of diversity, within very short distances, that made Silicon Valley what it is - more than anything.
this tickles my capitalism.
Panzer Faust
more bussineses are opened, consume goes up, the revenue skyrocketes and less and less jobs are created. Aren't bubbles beautiful?
Fede Widder yes,yes,yes, no?
Panzer Faust
tech industries don't need a lot of employees and automatization will leave more people unemployed. If less people are employed, who is going yo buy all of your new shit?
Fede Widder that's not true. Internet companies don't needany employees, such as Netflix, but companies that make technology such as apple do.
panzer, if you tickle your capitalism it will be very sore.
I drove through Silicon Valley visiting my girlfriend, i was amazed at all the company headquarters i saw
Growing up when this is all going down, it made it eventually impossible for a college student to live in the bay area just because there was an influx of engineers and high skilled workers taking up the mantle; therefore causing a huge spike in living costs in the area
"The transistor is now known as the computer processor" Wait what ?
Movie plot.
I live near Silicon Valley and it's pretty cool knowing where I grew up has helped mold today's tech industry
yeah
yeah
too much poverty in Silicon Valley
andreeeeaa1 huh
yeah
That's why some family work paycheck to paycheck because the cost of living is really expensive here in Silicon Valley especially here in San Jose CA.. (shoutout to the people who live here in San Jose)
Gaming Potato club SJ represent!
Gaming Potato club yup man it's hard dude
We had to move back into apartments
It's even worse here in San Francisco rip :(
Dan Nerson Tolentino
DEM NIGGAZ BEST START STUDYING YO
NO BURGER FLIPPER FINNA LIVE NEXT TO REAL BALLER STATUS ELON MUSK
Why is California so expensive to live in?
There's so many job opportunities in Silicon Valley, especially for those who enjoy computer science.
lol yeah there maybe a lot of job "opportunities" but there's too many applicants the competition to get a job there is pretty fucking hard.
I live in SV but now tons of people are coming here so a small house is worth up to 1 million.
HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR CLOD yeah but the cost of living is ridiculous
Panda Inc thats true but a 30 minute or even less commute is possible
Good luck trying to get decent housing there. Property taxes are sky high.
you know you live in the silicon valley when there are 30 tesla’s on ur street
My startup is next.
TheO2tenify Good luck! (that wasn’t sarcasm)
@@davidnissim9203 he actually made it
@@mayattv4986 I am confusion
@Jojo reference his start-up company
So , how far are you at right now?
I wonder what internet speeds they have?
Ryley Schack not that great..you'd think we would
Nacho TV Wow
it maybe the internet and computer tech capital of the world but it got shit fucking internet compare to korea
Ryley Schack my interent is pretty good is not the best, I'm just waiting for google fiber to be set up in San Jose
California is known for having terrible internet because of the terrain! I lived in Los Angeles and for the longest time the fastest speeds we could get was about 6mb down and 1 up. Just recently have we gotten into the double digits and we are no where near gigabyte speeds.
I lived in the South Bay from 1962 until 2015. In those early days, it was utopia with small towns separated by open fields and fruit/nut orchards that two-lane roads ran through to connect the towns. Suburbs started sprawling with new middle-class homes, but I could ride my bicycle into the undeveloped Santa Cruz Mountains often without seeing anyone driving a car for an hour or two. It was laid-back and hip! The Bay Area was the perfect place for Hippies to originate, in the sense that it still had a pastoral character with a sense of community. My town, Los Gatos, was a charming sleepy hollow of retirees, widows and Old Town style. Then, in the '70's, all hell broke loose!
High tech business buildings suddenly sprang up like mushrooms everywhere! I went from hippie to Silicon Valley engineer within a few years! It was a wild ride, and I met a lot of interesting people along the way, including many entrepreneurs & a guy who'd worked directly with Hewlett & Packard when they were just five people! I watched SV develop from the inside. It was start-up after start-up! Now retired, I'm glad to be missing the most frantic & expensive times, living in the Sierra-Nevada on the cheap! But I got the experience of watching history unfold in Silicon Valley's best days, including those before they paved Paradise!
That’s an awesome story. What made you decide to retire in seirra Nevada instead of California?
You should write a book about it. I’d read it!
Well done. I lived and worked in technology companies there from 1964 to 2015. Good job with the history.
That was informative. Thanks!
I've done a great deal of research on the region in the hopes to recreate it in my country. I am pleased to see that the majority of what's in this video I already know. Silicon Valley! You left out persons like Frederick Terman who was instrumental in laying the foundations for a lot of these companies to exists, for e.g. the founders of HP were his students and he encouraged them to start a company and provided prospective customers for their oscillators such as Walt Disney Studios. You have a new subscriber.
What country are you from?
The man was racist and had his school renamed.
@@avinashreji60 he is from Jamaica looking at his channel
RESUME:
Reddit
Twitter
PlayStation
Oracle
EA Sports
Facebook
Tesla
Uber
Google
LinkedIn
NASA
HP
Yahoo!
Microsoft
AMD
Intel
nVidia
CISCO
eBay
PayPal
Apple and
Netflix
were all created in the same local
I think I know where am I going to when I finish the University
Diogo David NASA was created in D.C, and PlayStation was created in Japan
lol good luck trying to find affordable living
Diogo David i think I know what new companies to invest in if any new ones ever come to exist in the area
Snapchat
When I'll live there, I'll certainly be BIllionaire, so no prblm m8
3:22 It shows Microsoft as being founded in silicon valley. It wasn't. It was founded in Albuquerque NM, and now its headquarters are in Redmond, WA. Microsoft does have a satellite campus in San Jose, but Microsoft has never been based there.
Joaftheloaf Microsoft Technology Center has been in Mountain View for 15 years. They are going to expand their current 515,000 square foot campus by an additional 128,000 square feet.
Joafie I was thinking the same thing. I remember visiting Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wa back in '98. They let you know their history and they didn't mention anything about starting up in silicon valley.
He never said it was founded in Silicon Valley. That’s just the location of the corporate office in San Jose. Anyone with a brain would at least google it before making that assumption
cyberglobe_funds - Of a corporate office of a division of Microsoft. The Corporate Headquarters is in Redmond, WA.
Microsoft has an executive branch in Mountain View. Not the headquarters, but pretty close.
wonderful overview! thoroughly enjoyed!
Dang I’ve been living in Sunnyvale for almost my whole life and I didn’t know this.
now i'm walking around silicon valley with my google earth
What a well put together video, bravo
Thank you, that was awesome!
I used to work for Microsoft and Google...
....As a custodian cleaning up their offices and bathrooms
Chriz V. You can still say you worked for Microsoft and Google :/
must of cleaned up alot of ca ca
I guess you can say you were a Google Engineer... Sanitation Engineer, that is.
Same here 😂😂 . My badge said i was a engineer
Chriz V. How did that pay
San Jose is amazing but It’s annoying how often we have real estate brokers coming to our doors asking if we want to sell our homes, my family was offered a rough 1.9 mil for a measly 3 bedroom home that isn’t in the best neighborhood
This is truly a great video
Thank you for the video 😊
Watching this from the Silicon Valley 😤😤😤
Lol..same
FSG Nobu I’m from Santa Clara. How about you?
how much your rent cost?)
South bay
@@luffystrolls6837 wtf me too
The Rent is Too Damn High!
WoW!!!!! Great video and content!
Thank you so much!!!!
"the transistor is now known as the cpu". Really? While a cpu contains transistors, they are not one and the same.
oh no 4years of being dumbass
Is it just me but every time i hear Silicon Valley I think of Richard and Erlich and Big Head... lol
San Jose is my home town. Thank you for this piece of history.
My home town since early 60’s
Cheers
Woah, it’s interesting to see how the largest tech hub grew to become the behemoth that it is today.
cant wait to have my company establish there also🤗
Please CZcams recommand more often like this videos 🙏
Amazing info
you know you're from silicon valley when the prices of standerd homes leave you broke
Nelson Ramirez honestly tho if we sell our houses & move to somewhere cheaper, we’d be baller $$
Christine Vera Cruz Hope you can live off that money for the rest of your life because you’re not getting that salary back.
Leave you homeless**
When I was born here in 1960, there were plenty of dairies, farms and orchards. You saw cows and barbed wire on the sides of 101 in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara traveling between San Jose and Mountain View in the early 1970s. Almaden still had lots of vineyards. Fremont had a nationally-famous drag strip AND a glider port (great lift off Mission Peak).
Now it's all filled in, Much of the local wildlife is gone (where I once heard and saw song birds, now I mainly only see crows, and no fields means no burrowing owls) and many hard-working people can no longer afford a home here anymore.
This is progress?
Ok boomer, maybe if you consider world's largest tech companies that had an impact to the world were founded here then you would not complain
Ok boomer
Yeah, I remember seeing cows milked in a little barn off Arastradero Road back around 1960 or so, just west of where Foothill Expressway is now. Grew up on acre of apricots, across the street from where Tesla's HQ is now.
Lol. Well tech and companies flourished. But not great for the average Joe to live there.
good video!
Now just 3 companies make it 3trillion dollar economy
now you gave North Korea an idea the first Target.
don't worry. some of your shit from the Silicon Valley are even backed up here in South East Asia on a daily basis.
If a nuke hit it chances are most of your facilities globally could assume the tasks anywhere around the world within hours.
unless we managed to nuke humanity to kingdom come in one day.
Nope KJN still wants his iPhones.
you don't even understand how things work , the money are mostly the value of those companies trademark not the buildings.
Ha ha funny guy
"The transistor is now known as the computer processor"
Actually, the computer processor is made up of millions to billions of transistors. Transistors are still in use with many everyday electrical appliances. This statement is false because not all electrical appliances contain computer processors. Image it like this. A kids toy probably contains a transistor. The kids toy does not contain a computer processor.
Great edditing and production
And narration
Impressive!
I miss my hometown I wish my kids could experience where I grew up
jin yang!!!!
Good, Job, Bro. Now, i know all about Silicon Valley. I don't know, if this is the timeline history about Silicon Valley...
I see a slef driving car just about every day living here and it's always odd when relatives come to visit and marvel at the cars I see every day.
silicon valley ruined the bay area for people who are average Joe's not involved in the tech industry or construction. Rent and the prices of homes has spiked ridiculously high non stop for the past 5 years, most of the people i know were forced to move out to the valley, citys like tracy, lathrop, modesto & stockton. they are forced to make that long commute every day because they can't afford a 2 bedroom apartment thats almost 4000 a month. Ridiculous!
the neighbors I had, most of their families had been in those homes for generations, now all these new people moving in are buying them all out of their homes, the sense of community is gone.
Joseph Stafford wow the cost for 2bedroom is 4k? i wonder what is the average income in silicone valley.
yup thats how it is in the bay area. survival of the fittest. I have multiple properties in the east bay and i make a quite healthy income
Average mid career income in bay area tech job is around 140k-150k. Average 2 bedroom house rents at 3k pm. 4k is a for high end communities.
Joseph Stafford You can thank HOAs and neighborhood associate from opposing new developments to increase density . The Bay Area is a mess.
“It wasn’t always this way”
Silicon Valley: *Lead the development of important technology from its beginning*
Quick info thanks
My parents moved to Mountain View in 1960 i was 5.... it was a great place to grow up back then,,,, lots of open land and deserted building to play in.... now it's another world,, i moved out in 2005.
There is only one thing missing here and that is any mention of UC Berkeley and the role it's played alongside Stanford in making Silicon Valley the global hub of the tech industry and a premier breeding ground for entrepreneurs, which in turn has drawn venture capitalists who are willing to invest in startups.
Wow// so u left out ibm pilot offices
I usually don't like time lines this one was ok, I watched all the way through
Nice info, i wish i could move to silicon valley
Silicon Valley is too damn expensive.
Why is NASA in Silicon Valley?... That looks weird...
Hue Lu Because Lockheed Martin is in Sunnyvale, next to Moffett Field
Nice to see Cisco there but a call out would've been nice!
What song are they using in the beginning and at the end?
CALIFORNIA!!! WHHOOO
This video neglects to mention many of the most important players in the founding of Silicon Valley, such as IBM who opened a San Jose Laboratory in 1943 becoming the West Coast Headquarters of IBM. Of course they went on to develop the hard disk drive and RAMAC pioneering storage and later memory technologies, laser, and thousands of other processes and technologies (including the relational database concept stolen by Larry Ellison).
We need a dramatized movie covering the history of Silicon Valley.
awesome👍
1:10 “woor wool 2”
Lmaoo, The Traitorous Eight left to become titans of today.........they are the real Gods of our recent tech
Shockley was a real jerk. Don't blame them one bit.
My own personal legacy working in Silicon Valley., thanks for sharing.
You forgot about 2 memorable tech companies - Hooli & Pied Piper!
Silicon Valley: I’m worth $3 trillion
Rothschild: Hold my beer
Cool it with the antisemitism.
@@ghostferatu6241 that wasn't anti-semitic?
You can make a religion out of this.
mischiefmanaged no dont
What do you mean?
@@darklight38 don't think too much into it, it's a meme
Ah yes, a bill wurtz fan.
so inspirational
It's Amazing 🌟❤
What is "Wah-Wuh Two?" 1:10
World War Two. He just garbled the speech of it.
bwahahahhaahahhahaahahahha wah wah
Call me stupid, but I live in Mountain View and I didn't know about any of this.
XanaxKFC damn
No way
You're stupid. You're welcome.
then it's time to get out of the cave and wander around ..
The town with Google and the Microsoft corporate office?
What's the name of the track at the end of the video?
Hewlett-Packard simply started Silicon Valley.
HP started the growth of my city as well Roseville California when they opened a Business Park in the Farmlands of West Roseville in the 1980s. That area has been roaring ever since.
Ayy, any homies from silicon valley?
BadSuperhero adopt me maybe?
Not quite Silicon Valley, but San Francisco native here.
mountain view.
San Jose right here!
Born in San Jo !
This is not a hair
i hate you
No, im a hair
Jayy how could it be??
Cypress GreeN Idk guess this is kind of a hairy situation
That good old soft testicular hair 😂
great info , however you forgot to mention Samsung semiconductor in san Jose . thank you !
I was trying to find out more about the old Fairchild building in south San Jose that is now gone and replaced by a shopping center
One day I will start a company and join those companies in the Silicon Valey 👌
ShadowRazed I'm working on it
Its called Silicon Valey not Silicone Valley
Valley*
Green/Renewable energy.
What kind?
I thought I was economically disadvantaged until I realized I lived in Silicon Valley (btw I live in East San Jose)
Luis Vargas Cool
That is really magic
I didn't realise HP was so old!
It's quite funny because Silicon Valley along with France and India are all now wealthier than the UK.
In what respect? Their average incomes are lower, their GDP per capita is low, their average net worth is lower, in what way are they?
James Newstead California's gdp per capita is bigger than the UK's tho.
@@jim7771 You know that California has a much smaller population than the UK, right? Smaller population and roughly the same size of economy, do the math.
@@BadassBikerOwns I wasn't talking about Cali, I was talking about India.
Brexit is damaging the UK’s economy
wow, im spoiled to live here
(you still need to work HARD btw)
No shit sherlock
name of the song near the end?
Anyone know what is the background music when its start from 3:12 here?