TNTECH NOSTALJIAStories behind the machines

AN OPEN NOTEBOOK OF COMPUTING HISTORY

Before it was inevitable,
someone imagined it.

Explore the people, rivalries, and ideas that built Silicon Valley—and the machines that changed everyday life.

COMPANIES·PEOPLE·IDEAS·TURNING POINTS
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HELLO, FUTURE_THE VALLEY · 1971
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A future is a story before it is a product.
AN ARCHIVE IN PROGRESS✳FOLLOW THE IDEAS✳QUESTION THE MYTHS✳REMEMBER THE PEOPLE

THE BIG PICTURE

More than a garage
and a good idea.

Silicon Valley history is a network of people, universities, defense contracts, factories, capital, and stubborn experiments. We connect the videos you love with original context and sources you can follow.

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AN EDITORIAL PROMISE

History is better
with its receipts.

Every story should show where a claim came from, distinguish memory from documentation, and make room for people left out of the familiar origin myths.

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A PLACE TO START

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