Being a young person in the tech industry, I've always been fascinated by the little tidbits of history that I've come across. Are there any books / articles which offer an insight into how the industry looked like in the 80's and 90's?
'The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce' by Tom Wolfe in Esquire magazine, Dec 1983, pps 346-374 about the 60s 70s and early 80s in SV: Fairchild, Intel and other companies, Willian Shockley, Gordon Moore and other people. On the web at
https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyc...
Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums, by Stewart Brand in Rolling Stone 7 Dec 1972. Stanford AI Lab and Xerox PARC in the early 70s. Also at
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html
The Suburb That Changed the World, Jaron Lanier, New Statesman 28 Aug 2011. SV in the 70s and 80s as seen by a then-young hacker remembered much later.
http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2011/08/silicon-valley-c...
The Guy I Almost Was, by Patrick Farley - Early 90s cyber-utopianism in SV as seen by an aspiring outsider