History of Founding SVTAGS Silicon Valley and Technology History of Silicon Valley is rich with many of the topics of the Silicon Valley Technology, Art, Green and Sustainability show. 1891—Stanford University is founded by Governor Leland and Jane Stanford. 1903—Valdemar Poulsen demonstrates the first arc radio transmitter for high-quality voice transmission in his Palo Alto laboratory. He later invents the first practical device for magnetic sound recording and reproduction. 1930's the United Nations (UN) was founded in San Francisco, California. 1937—Encouraged by Terman, William Hewlett and David Packard start a company to produce their audio-oscillator. Walt Disney becomes their first customer, purchasing the product for use on the film Fantasia. 1952—IBM locates a key research facility to the valley. 1958—NASA moves a research facility to the valley. 1968—Douglas Engelbart and team at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) give first public demonstration of the computer mouse, windows, and networking. 1970’s Venture Capital Firms Begain the industry for VC’s 1971—Alan Shugart invents the floppy disk for data storage. 1974—Development of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) led to the intuitive design of Apple's Macintosh computer and Microsoft Windows. 1976 Apple Computer formed in a Cupertino Garage 1982—The Stanford University Network is the catalyst behind the founding of Sun Microsystems. Silicon Graphics uses the same network chips to create its first graphic workstations. 1993—Stanford Professor Jim Clark hires Mosaic web browser pioneer Mark Andreesen to found Mosaic Communications, predecessor to Netscape Communications Corporation and the browser that made the Internet an everyday tool. 1994—Jerry Yang and David Filo start a directory of websites that explodes into Yahoo!. 2000 to 2001 Internet Bubble Bursts! 2003—Google purchases Pyra Labs to support blogs, today’s online community forums. 2003 – Web 2.0 History of Art in Silicon Valley 1907- California College of the Arts 1912 - Villa Montalvo – Now Montalvo Arts Center 1919 - Santa Cruz Art League 1929 - Allied Arts Guild Auxiliary, Allied Arts Guild 1959 - The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco 1969 - San Jose Museum of Art 1969 - the Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco 1976 - The California Arts Council 1980- San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art 1982 -Arts Council Silicon Valley 1997 - Burning Man 2000 – Artsopolis, 2003 Acquired by Arts Council Silicon Valley History of Green The environmental movement is not something new, just reinvented! 1872 – Congress passed legislation, Yellowstone the 1st National Park in the World. 1892 - John Muir (1838-1914) founded the Sierra Club 1891 – Forrest Reserve Act 1941 - Rachel Carson: Books “Witness for Nature” and in 1962 “Silent Spring” She is really the Grandmother of the Green Movement 1955- Air Pollution Control Act 1963 - Clean Air Act 1969 –The EPA formed 1970- Clean Air Act Extension 1972 – Water Pollution Control Act 1973- Endangered Species Act 1974 to 1978 - Jerry Brown- The first building and appliance energy efficiency standards and made California the leader in solar and alternative energy. 2005 – Kyoto Protocol United Nations (Again -this is important to SVTAGS topics and issues). History of Sustainability 1945 -United Nations (In San Francisco 1930’s it was formed, then to NY) 1974- Worldwatch Institute 2001- Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown, President 2001- Sustainable Silicon Valley 2005 – Kyoto Protocol United Nations History of Silicon Valley Resources: http://www.siliconvalleyonline.org/history.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer |