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Silicon
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A few points from recent IT history...
| by Gregory Gromov | ||
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From the beginning of IT-history, a great deal of the IT key-solutions have been reaching worldwide market from California's Silicon Valley . There are several different approaches to describe this general IT-tendency. |
The Silicon Valley and IT History
First level -- Community |
Second level -- Tech-TimeLine |
Third -- Financial Concern |
| The first level usually focuses on Silicon Valley's professional community. | 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: | The third level of Silicon Valley history focuses on financial concerns |
 About 40 years ago Stanford University (Palo-Alto, California) had some
financial problems.
|
 1906 the first signal
amplifier, a vacuum tube triode,was invented by Lee
de Forest,
|
 PC revolution . December 1980, Apple goes
public. Morgan Stanley and Co. and Hambrecht & 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 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 " It was the biggest IPO in
history ... |
| The phrase Silicon Valley first appeared in 1971 in a series of articles that journalist Don C Hoefler wrote for Electronic News, a weekly industry tabloid. | It looks like the story is not completed yet... | Gross Revenue: Now about 4,000 IT-related companies located along Highway 101 from San Francisco to San Jose generate approximately $200 billions in IT-related revenue annually |
 William
Hewlett used the supernova concept to clarify his
viewpoint to Silicon Valley history and named Lee de Forest the
father of Silicon
Valley. |
| From our viewpoint the supernova is not merely a literature metaphor... "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 "(Joseph Shklovski, 1981). 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. |
 ...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 share it with us at least. |
| It was not too
difficult to predict, where the next IT-wave would come from . To take a look at some of the new areas of business development of Silicon Valley Companies was enough. However, to predict where the next IT- revolution will come from is no easy task now: |
 The
WWW project was launched in Europe (March1989),
Silicon Valley is explosively expanding its geographical
borders ... it's transforming itself to Internet Valley,which is destroying any geographical limits for the new kind of human being. |
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