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100 1 $aFisher, Adam$c(Journalist).
245 10$aValley of genius :$bthe uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom /$cAdam Fisher.
246 30$aUncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTwelve,$c2018.
300 $axvi, 494 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. (chiefly col) ;$c24.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 463-470) index.
505 0 $aPreface. Silicon Valley, explained : the story of the past, as retold by the people of the future -- Book one: Among the computer bums. The big bang : everything starts with Doug Engelbart ; Ready Player One : the first T-shirt tycoon ; The time machine : inventing the future at Xerox PARC ; Breakout : Jobs and Woz change the game ; Towel designers : Atari's high-strung prima donnas ; PARC opens the kimono : good artists copy, great artists steal ; 3P1C F41L : it's game over for Atari ; Hello, I'm Macintosh : it sure is great to get out of that bag ; Fumbling the future : who blew it, Xerox PARC--or Steve Jobs? -- Book two: The hacker ethic. What information wants : heroes of the computer revolution ; The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link : welcome to the restaurant at the end of the universe ; Reality check : the new new thing--that wasn't ; From insanely great to greatly insane : General Magic mentors a generation ; The Bengali typhoon : Wired's revolution of the month ; Toy stories : from PARC to Pixar ; Jerry Garcia's last words : Netscape opened at what?! ; A fish, a barrel, and a gun : Suck perfects the art of snark ; Culture hacking : the cyberunderground goes mainstream -- Book three: Network effects. The check is in the mail : eBay's trillion-dollar garage sale ; The shape of the internet : a problem of great googolplexity ; Free as in beer : two teenagers crash the music industry ; The dot bomb : only thecockroaches survive...and you're one of the cockroaches ; The return of the king : iCame, iSaw, iConquered ; I'm feeling lucky : Google cracks the code ; I'm CEO...bitch : Zuck moves to Silicon Valley to "dominate" (and does) ; Purple people eater : Apple, the company that cannibalizes itself ; Twttr : nose-ring-wearing, tattooed, neck-bearded, long-haired punk hippie misfits ; To infinity...and beyond! : Steve Jobs in memoriam -- Epilogue: The endless frontier : the future history of Silicon Valley.
520 $aA candid and comprehensive oral history of Silicon Valley's secrets traces the disruptions and start-ups that impacted its economy from the origins of Apple and Atari through the present-day clashes of Google and Facebook.
650 0$aComputer industry$zCalifornia$zSanta Clara Valley (Santa.
650 0$aBusinesspeople$zCalifornia$zSanta Clara Valley (Santa.
650 0$aHigh technology industries$zCalifornia$zSanta Clara Valley.
650 0$aTechnological innovations$zCalifornia$zSanta Clara Valley.
651 0$aSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)$xEconomic.