Story Behind “The Secret History of Silicon Valley” Part IV (2009)

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Re-titling this submission really removed a lot of information from the title. I get the desire to discourage editorializing, but it'd be nice if, when the mods change a title, they ensure the new one is not worse than the old.

I totally agree.

Lately, most of my submissions get retitled to the on-page title, thereby removing the reference / context to HN.

For information the original title was from SBs tweet, here: https://twitter.com/sgblank/status/359847947296440321

I agree....the whole reason this was interesting was because there is a connection between blank, a lot of readers, and the Snowden case.

What's with the hidden "74HGZ" text at the end of the first paragraph?

Also appears here: http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-val...

some old tracking codes I embedded 4 years ago from some defunct analytics system I can't remember.

The entire 15-part series - "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" - can be found here, along with a a video presentation and a lot of background material:

http://steveblank.com/secret-history

It's the story of how Silicon Valley got its start doing government contracting during WWII and the Cold War.

I should be asleep but this has caught my interest.

"These next series of posts chronicles the untold story of how one professor returning from one war decides to enlist Stanford University in waging the next one and by accident, laid the foundation for Silicon Valley, venture capital and entrepreneurship as we know it today."

http://steveblank.com/2009/08/03/the-secret-history-of-silic...

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