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Silicon Valley Culture Originated In Radio Days
yroJJory writes to recommend a piece up at SFGate on the history of Silicon Valley and its roots in radio, accompanied by some great old photos. "When the Traitorous Eight [founders of Fairchild], as they're sometimes called, held their hush-hush meeting in San Francisco, they had reason to fear discovery — but no way to know that by quitting safe jobs for a risky startup, they would earn a place among what Stanford University historian Leslie Berlin calls the 'Founding Fathers of Silicon Valley'... Roughly 30 years before Hewlett and Packard started work in their garage, and almost 50 years before the Traitorous Eight created Fairchild, the basic culture of Silicon Valley was forming around radio: engineers who hung out in hobby clubs, brainstormed and borrowed equipment, spun new companies out of old ones, and established a meritocracy ruled by those who made electronic products cheaper, faster and better."
If it weren't for George W. Bush, we would still have Silicon Valley. Those terrorists would have gone after and blown up Silicon Valley just like they did in Manhattan. Instead, Bush stood up to them and declared War On Terror! Those Bin Laden in his men are all scared shitless and hiding from the World's Most Divine Military.
When I go to bed at night, I thank God that a man as good as George W. Bush exists. I pray to the Lord that we can have George W. Bush for a third term to win the war in Iraq and cleanse the world of terrorists.
Write in George W. Bush in 2008!
Bush is the man that won't take any left turns, even when Congress will.