1974: Philips acquires Magnavox
1974: Tommy Davis launches the Mayfield Fund
1974: (Sam Hurst invents the touch-screen user interface)
1974: Vint Cerf of Stanford and others publish the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
1974: The Ant Farm art collective creates the installation "Cadillac Farm"
(1974: The Polish geneticist Waclaw Szybalski coins the term "synthetic biology")
1975: Xerox PARC debuts the first GUI or "Graphical User Interface"
1975: Advanced Micro Devices introduces a reverse-engineered clone of the Intel 8080 microprocessor
1967: John Chowning at Stanford University invents frequency modulation synthesis that allows an electronic instrument to simulate the sound of orchestral instruments
1975: John Chowning and Leland Smith at Stanford found a computer music lab, later renamed Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
(1975: Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith establish the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the New York Institute of Technology)
(1975: Ed Roberts in New Mexico introduces the Altair 8800 based on an Intel microprocessor and sold as a mail-order kit)
(1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a version of BASIC for the Altair personal computer and found Microsoft)
1975: Steve Wozniak and others found the "Homebrew Computer Club"
(1975: John Holland describes Genetic Algorithms )
1976: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs form Apple Computer and build the first microcomputer in Jobs' garage in Cupertino.
1976: Stanford University researchers (Martin Hellman, Ralph Merkle and Whitfield Diffie) describe the concept of public-key cryptography
1976: Bill Joy writes the "vi" text editor for Unix
1976: William Ackerman founds Windham Hill to promote his "new age" music
1976: Burton Richter of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
Apr 1976: Biochemist Herbert Boyer and venture capitalist Robert Swanson found Genentech, the first major biotech company
(1976: Ed Catmull and Fred Parke's computer animation in a scene of the film "Futureworld" is the first to use 3D computer graphics)
1976: Institutional Venture Associates splits into two partnerships, McMurtry's Technology Venture Associates and Dennis' Institutional Venture Partners
1976: ROLM introduces a digital switch, the CBX (a computer-based PBX)
(1976: MOS Technology introduces the 6502 processor)
1977: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak develop the Apple II using the 6502 processor
1977: Bill Joy at U.C. Berkeley ships the first BSD version of Unix
1974: IBM's San Jose laboratories unveils the relational database system System R
1977: 27,000 people are employed in the Semiconductor industry of Silicon Valley
1977: San Francisco's city supervisor Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay man to be elected to office in the USA
1977: George Coates founds his multimedia theater group, Performance Works
1977: UC Berkeley develops the "Berkeley Software Distribution" (BSD), better known as "Berkeley Unix", a variant of the Unix operating system
Aug 1977: Larry Ellison founds the Software Development Laboratories, later renamed Oracle Corporation
1977: Atari introduces a videogame console, the 2600, based on the 6502 processor
1977: Dave Smith builds the "Prophet 5", the world's first microprocessor-based musical instrument, the first polyphonic and programmable synthesizer
(1977: Dennis Hayes of National Data Corporation invents the PC modem, a device that converts between analog and digital signals)
(1978: Toshihiro Nishikado creates the first blockbuster videogame, "Space Invaders")
1978: The rainbow flag debuts at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade
(1978: Mark Pauline founds the Survival Research Laboratories
1978: Apple launches a project to design a personal computer with a graphical user interface
1978: Atari announces the Atari 800, designed by Jay Miner
1979: Dan Bricklin develops VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for personal computers
1979: Larry Michels founds the first Unix consulting company, Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)
1979: Michael Stonebraker at U.C. Berkeley unveils a relational database system, Ingres
1979: University of California at Berkeley launches the "Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations" project or "Serendip"
1979: Lucasfilm hires Ed Catmull from the New York Institute of Technology to lead the Graphics Group of its Computer Division
1979: Kevin MacKenzie invents symbols such as :-), or "emoticons", to mimic the cues of face-to-face communication
1979: John Shoch of Xerox's PARC coins the term "worm" to describe a program that travels through a network of computers
1980: The Arpanet has 430,000 users, who exchange almost 100 million email messages a year
1980: John Searle publishes the article on the "Chinese Room" that attacks Artificial Intelligence
1980: Sonya Rapoport creates the interactive audio/visual installation "Objects on my Dresser"
1980: Seagate Technology introduces the first hard-disk drive for personal computers
1980: Doug and Gary Carlston found the videogame company Broderbund
1980: Paul Berg of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1980: Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz of UC Berkeley is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1980: Integrated circuits incorporate 100,000 discrete components
1980: The Usenet is born, an Arpanet-based discussion system divided in "newsgroups"
1980: Apple goes public for a record $1.3 billion
1980: UC Davis researchers found biotech company Calgene
1980: John Doerr joins Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers
1980: Ed Feigenbaum and others found IntelliGenetics (later Intellicorp), an early Artificial Intelligence and biotech startup
(1980: Sony introduces the double-sided, double-density 3.5" floppy disk that holds 875 kilobyte)
1980: Onyx launches the first microcomputer running the Unix operating system
1981: The Xerox 8010 Star Information System is the first commercial computer that uses a mouse
1980: David Patterson and Carlo Sequin launch a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) project at U.C. Berkeley
1981: John Hennessy starts a RISC project at Stanford University
1981: Ed Feigenbaum and others found Teknowledge, the first major startup to develop "expert systems"
1981: Arthur Schawlow of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
1981: Roger Malina relocates Leonardo ISAST from Paris to San Francisco
Oct 1981: Jim Clark of Stanford University and Abbey Silverstone of Xerox found Silicon Graphics in Sunnyvale to manufacture graphic workstations
(Aug 1981: The IBM PC is launched, running an operating system developed by Bill Gates' Microsoft)
1981: Andreas Bechtolsheim at Stanford University builds a workstation running Unix and networking software
Dec 1982: John Warnock and Charles Geschke of Xerox PARC develop PostScript and found Adobe to commercialize it
(1982: John Hopfield describes a new generation of neural networks)
(1982: Thomas Zimmerman of IBM Almaden builds the first commercially-available dataglove
1982: Stanford students Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy (a former Onyx employee) and former Berkeley student Bill Joy found SUN Microsystems, named after the "Stanford University Network", to manufacture workstations
1982: Apple's employee Trip Hawkins founds Electronic Arts to create home computer games
1982: John Walker founds Autodesk to sell computer-aided design software
1982: Gary Hendrix founds Symantec
(1982: Nastec introduces the term "Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE)" for its suite of software development tools)
Jan 1983: The Lotus Development Corporation, founded by Mitchell Kapor, introduces the spreadsheet program "Lotus 1-2-3" for MS-DOS developed by Jonathan Sachs
1983: Gavilan, founded by Manuel Fernandez, former CEO of Zilog, introduces the first portable computer marketed as a "laptop"
1983: Crash of the videogame console market
Mar 1983: Compaq introduces the Portable PC, compatible with the IBM PC
1983: The Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol or "TCP/IP" running on Unix BSD 4.2 debuts on the Arpanet, and the Arpanet is officially renamed Internet
1983: Paul Mockapetris invents the Domain Name System for the Internet to classify Internet addresses through extensions such as .com
Jan 1983: Apple introduces the "Lisa", the first personal computer with a graphical user interface
1983: Henry Taube of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1983: The Musical Instrument Digital Interface is introduced, based on an idea by Dave Smith
(1983: William Inmon builds the first data warehousing system)
1983: Gerard Debreu of UC Berkeley is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
(1983: Nintendo releases the Family Computer, renamed Nintendo Entertainment System in the USA)
1984: Cisco is founded by Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner
(1984: Michael Dell, a student at University of Texas at Austin, founds PCs Limited, later renamed Dell, to sell custom PC-compatible computers by mail-order only)
(1984: Psion introduces the first personal digital assistant, the first hand-held computer)
1984: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute is founded by Thomas Pierson and Jill Tarter
1984: Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin develop "Presentation", an application to create slide presentations (later renamed "PowerPoint")
1984: The "Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence" or SETI Institute is founded
1984: Michael McGreevy creates the first virtual-reality environment at NASA Ames
(1984: Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner found the MIT Media Lab)
(1984: General Motors builds a factory that uses Supply Chain Management software)
(1984: Wavefront introduces the first commercial 3D-graphics software)
1984: Hewlett-Packard introduces the first ink-jet printer
Jan 1984: Apple introduces the Macintosh, which revolutionizes desktop publishing
(1984: William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer" popularizes the "cyberpunks")
(1984: The CDROM is introduced by Sony and Philips)
(1984: The CADRE laboratory ("Computers in Art, Design, Research, and Education") is established at San Jose State University
(1984: Fujio Masuoka at Toshiba invents flash memory, a cheaper kind of EEPROM)
1985: Stewart Brand creates the "Whole Earth Lectronic Link" (or "WELL"), a virtual community of computer users structured in bulletin boards for online discussions
1985: Digital Research introduces GEM (Graphical Environment Manager), a graphical-user interface for the CP/M operating system designed by former Xerox PARC employee Lee Jay Lorenzen
(1985: Microsoft releases Windows 1.0 for MS-DOS)
(1985: Commodore launches the Amiga 1000, a 16-bit home computer with advanced graphical and audio (multimedia) designed by former Atari employee Jay Miner and running a multitasking operating system and GUI designed by Carl Sassenrath)
1985: Richard Stallman founds the non-profit organization "Free Software Foundation" (FSF)
1985: Hewlett Packard introduces the LaserJet, a printer for the home market
1985: Jobs and Wozniak leave Apple
(Jul 1985: Aldus introduces PageMaker for the Macintosh, the first system for desktop publishing)
1985: A crisis in the semiconductor industry is brought about by the dumping of cheaper Japanese products
(1985: Richard Stallman releases a free operating system, "GNU")
1985: Warren Robinett, Scott Fisher and Michael McGreevy of NASA Ames build the "Virtual Environment Workstation" for virtual-reality research, incorporating the first dataglove and the first low-cost head-mounted display
(1985: Microsoft ships the "Windows" operating system)
(1985: Jim Kimsey founds Quantum Computer Services (later renamed America Online) to provide dedicated online services for personal computers)
1985: The Arpanet is renamed Internet
1985: Jaron Lanier founds VPL Research, the first company to sell Virtual Reality products
1985: Robert Sinsheimer organizes a meeting in Santa Cruz of biologists to discuss the feasibility of sequencing the entire human genome
1986: Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs buys Lucasfilms' Pixar, that becomes an independent film studio run by Ed Catmull
1986: A book by Eric Drexler popularizes the term "nanotechnology"
(1986: Phil Katz invents the zip compression format for his program Pkzip)
(1986: A virus spread among IBM PCs, nicknamed "Brain")
1986: Larry Harvey starts the first "Burning Man" on Baker Beach in San Francisco
1986: Judy Malloy publishes the computer-mediated hyper-novel "Uncle Roger" on the WELL
1986: Renzo Piano builds the California Academy of Science in San Francisco
1986: Yuan Lee of the Lawrence Berkeley Labs is awarded the Nobel Prize
1987: Chris Langton coins the term "Artificial Life"
1987: Jerry Kaplan and others found GO Corporation to manufacture portable computers with a pen-based user interface
1987: David Duffield and Ken Morris found PeopleSoft to manufacture Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications
(1987: The JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format is introduced)
(1987: Linus Technologies introduces the first pen-based computer, WriteTop)
1987: Bill Atkinson at Apple creates the hypermedia system HyperCard
(1987: Uunet becomes the first commercial Internet Service Provider, ISP)
1988: "Morris", the first digital worm, infects most of the Internet
1988: Steven Benner organizes the conference "Redesigning the Molecules of Life', the first major conference on synthetic biology
(1988: 1988: Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) that provids broadband on a phone line is invented by Bellcore)
1989: UC Berkeley introduces the "BSD license", one of the first open-source licences
1989: Adobe releases Photoshop
(1989: Barry Shein founds the first Internet Service Provider, "The World", in Boston)
1990: Richard Taylor of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and William Sharpe of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
1990: Between 1970 and 1990 the population of San Jose has almost doubled, from 445,779 to 782,248
(1990: Dycam introduces the first digital camera, Model 1)
(1990: Microsoft announced that it will stop working on OS/2)
(1990: The "Human Genome Project" is launched to decipher human DNA)
1990: Michael West founds the biotech company Geron that pioneers commercial applications of regenerative medicine
(1990: Tim Berners-Lee of CERN invents the HyperText Markup Language "HTML" and demonstrates the World-Wide Web)
(1990: The first Internet search engine, "Archie", is developed in Montreal)
1990: LaRoche acquires a majority stake in Genentech
(1991: The World-Wide Web debuts on the Internet)
(1991: United Technologies Corporation becomes the first company to market a fuel-cell system)
(1991: Microsoft has revenues of $1,843,432,000 and 8,226 employees)
(1991: Finnish student Linus Torvalds introduces the Linux operating system, a variant of Unix)
(1991: Paul Lindner and Mark McCahill of the University of Minnesota release "Gopher", a software program to access the World-Wide Web)
1991: Pei-Yuan Wei introduces a "browser" for the world-wide web, Viola
Dec 1991: Apple introduces QuickTime
1992: Macromedia is founded in San Francisco
1992: Intel is the world's largest semiconductor company
1992: The "Information Tapestry" project at Xerox PARC pioneers collaborative filtering
(1992: The Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois Chicago creates a "CAVE" ("Cave Automatic Virtual Environment"), a surround-screen and surround-sound virtual-reality environment (graphics projected from behind the walls that surround the user)
(1992: SAP launches R/3, moving its ERP system from mainframe to a three-tiered client-server architecture and to a relational database)
1992: Gary Becker of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
1992: Calgene creates the "Flavr Savr" tomato, the first genetically-engineered food to be sold in stores
(1992: Jean Armour Polly coins the phrase "Surfing the Internet")
(1992: Thomas Ray develops "Tierra", a computer simulation of ecology)
(1992: (The first text message is sent from a phone)
1993: Stanford University's professor Jim Clark hires Mark Andreesen
1993: Condoleezza Rice becomes Stanford's youngest, first female and first non-white provost
1993: Thomas Siebel founds Siebel for customer relationship management (CRM) applications
1993: Steve Putz at Xerox's PARC creates the web mapping service Map Viewer
1993: The first "Other Minds Festival" for avantgarde music is held in San Francisco
1993: Broderbund introduces the videogame "Myst"
1993: Adobe Systems introduces Acrobat and the file format PDF (or Portable Document Format)
1993: Marc Andreessen develops the first browser for the World Wide Web (Mosaic)
1994: John Harsanyi of UC Berkeley is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
(1994: Mark Pesce introduces the "Virtual Reality Modeling Language" or VRML)
1994: The "Band of Angels" is founded by "angels" to fund Silicon Valley startups
(1994: University of North Carolina's college radio station WXYC becomes the first radio station in the world to broadcast its signal over the Internet)
1994: The search engine Architext (later Excite) debuts
1994: There are 315 public companies in Silicon Valley
Jan 1995: Stanford student Jerry Yang founds Yahoo
1995: Salon is founded by David Talbot
1995: Netscape, the company founded by Marc Andreesen, goes public even before earning money and starts the "dot.com" craze and the boom of the Nasdaq
(1995: Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer and starts the browser wars)
1995: John Lasseter's "Toy Story" is the first feature-length computer-animated film
(1995: The MP3 standard is introduced)
1995: Mario Botta builds the Modern Museum of Art in San Francisco
1995: Martin Perl of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
(1995: The Sony Playstation is introduced)
1995: Ward Cunningham creates WikiWikiWeb, the first "wiki", a manual on the internet maintained in a collaborative manner
1995: SUN launches the programming language Java
1995: Craig Newmark starts craigslist.com on the Internet, a regional advertising community
(1995: Amazon.com is launched on the web as the "world's largest bookstore", except that it is not a bookstore, it is a website)
1995: The At Home Network (@Home) is founded by William Randolph Hearst III
1996: Sabeer Bhatia launches Hotmail, a website to check email from anywhere in the world
(1996: Dell begin selling its computers via its website)
(1996: Nokia introduces the first "smartphone")
1996: Steve Jobs rejoins Apple
1996: Jeff Hawkins invents the Palm Pilot, a personal digital assistant
1996: Stewart Brand and Danny Hillis establish the "Long Now Foundation"
1996: Douglas Osheroff of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
1996: Macromedia introduces Flash
(1996: The first DVD player is introduced by Toshiba)
(1996: GeoSystems Global launches the web mapping service MapQuest that also provides address matching)
(1996: The Apache HTTP Server is introduced, an open-source web server)
(1996: 1996: Monsanto acquires Calgene
1996: Sydney Brenner founds the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley
1996: Brent Townshend invents the 56K modem
(1997: Andrew Weinreich creates SixDegrees.com, the first social networking website)
(1997: US West launches the first commercial DSL service in Phoenix)
1997: Reed Hastings founds Netflix to rent videos via the Internet
1997: The XML standard for exchanging documents on the World-Wide Web is introduced
(1997: Myron Scholes of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
1997: Steven Chu of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
1997: Evite is founded by Stanford engineering students Al Lieb and Selina Tobaccowala
(1997: The total revenues for ERP software market is $7.2 billion, with SAP, Baan, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, and PeopleSoft accounting for 62% of it)
1998: Stanford's scientist Mendel Rosenblum and others found Vmware
1998: NuvoMedia introduces the Rocket eBook, a handheld device to read ebooks
1998: Netscape makes its browser Navigator available for free in january 1998.
1998: Chinese and Indian engineers run about 25% of Silicon Valley's high-tech businesses, accounting for $16.8 billion in sales and 58,000 jobs
1998: SoftBook Press releases the first e-book reader
1998: Saul Perlmutter's team at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab discovers that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
1998: Celera, presided by Craig Venter of "The Institute for Genomic Research" (TIGR), is established to map the human genome (and later relocated to the Bay Area)
1998: Netscape launches the open-source project "Mozilla" of Internet applications
1998: Robert Laughlin of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
1998: America Online acquires Netscape
1998: Pierre Omidyar founds eBay, a website to auction items
1998: Two Stanford students, Larry Page and Russian-born Sergey Brin, launch the search engine Google
1998: Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay and scores of Internet-related startups create overnight millionaires
Dec 1998: Peter Thiel and Max Levchin found Confinity
(1998: Jorn Barger in Ohio coins the term "weblog" for webpages that simply contain links to other webpages)
(1998: Jim Gray creates the web mapping service TerraServer that also offers satellite images)
(1998: Bob Somerby starts "The Daily Howler", the first major political blog)
(1998: Taiwanese computer manufacturer Acer opens Acer Technology Ventures to invest in Silicon Valley startups
1999: Camille Utterback's "Text Rain" pioneers interactive digital art
1999: Between 1998 to 1999 venture capital investments in Silicon Valley firms increases more than 90% from $3.2 billion to $6.1 billion
1999: Google has 8 employees
Mar 1999: Friendster is launched in Morgan Hill by Jonathan Abrams
(1999: Total revenues for supply-chain software are $3.9 billion, with i2 owning 13% of the market)
1999: Siebel owns almost 50% of the CRM market
1999: Blogger.com allows people to create their own "blogs", or personal journals
1999: Marc Benioff founds Saleforce.com to move business applications to the Internet, pioneering cloud computing
1999: Philip Rosedale founds Linden Lab to develop virtual-reality hardware
1999: The world prepares for the new millennium amidst fears of computers glitches due to the change of date (Y2K)
(1999: The recording industry sues Shawn Fanning's Napster, a website that allows people to exchange music)
1999: 100 new Internet companies are listed in the USA stock market
1999: The USA has 250 billionaires, and thousands of new millionaires are created in just one year
(1999: Microsoft is worth 450 billion dollars, the most valued company in the world, even if it is many times smaller than General Motors, and Bill Gates is the world's richest man at $85 billion)
1999: At Home acquires Excite, the largest Internet-related merger yet
2000: The NASDAQ stock market crashes, wiping out trillions of dollars of wealth
2000: Victoria Hale, a former Genentech scientist, starts the first non-profit pharmaceutical company, the Institute for OneWorld Health
2000: Venture-capital investment in the USA peaks at $99.72 billion or 1% of GDP, mostly to software (17.4%), telecommunications (15.4%), networking (10.0%) and media (9.1%)
2000: 32% of Silicon Valley's high-skilled workers are foreign-born, mostly from Asia
(2000: Software and services account for 50% of IBM's business)
2000: Daniel McFadden of UC Berkeley is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
2000: There are 417 public companies in Silicon Valley
2000: 10 billion email messages a day are exchanged over the Internet
2000: Confinity and X.com merge to form Paypal, a system to pay online
2000: The government-funded Human Genome Project and the privately-funded Celera jointly announce that they have decoded the entire human genome
(2000: Dell has the largest share of worldwide personal computer sales)
Oct 2001: Apple launches the iPod
Dec 2001: Listen.com launches Rhapsody, a service that provides streaming on-demand access to a library of digital music
2001: KR Sridhar founds Bloom Energy to develop fuel-cell technology
2001: Nanosys is founded in 2001 to develop nanotechnology
2001: Semir Zeki founds the Institute of Neuroesthetics
2001: Joseph Stiglitz of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
2001: George Akerlof of UC Berkeley is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
2001: Jimmy Wales founds Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia that is collaboratively edited by the Internet community
2001: Hewlett-Packard acquires Compaq
2002: Ebay acquires Paypal and Paypal cofounder Elon Musk founds SpaceX to develop space transportation
2002: Bram Cohen unveils the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent
2002: Sydney Brenner is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine
2002: Codexis is founded to develop biofuels
(2003: Skype is founded in Europe by Niklas Zennstroem and Janus Friis to offer voice over IP, a system invented by Estonian engineers)
2003: Matt Mullenweg launches a platform for people to create their own website or blog, Wordpress
2003: Linden Lab launches "Second Life", a virtual world accessible via the Internet
2003: Amyris Biotechnologies is founded to produce renewable fuels
2003: Christopher Voigt founds a lab at UC San Francisco to program cells like robots to perform complex tasks
2003: Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning found Tesla to build electrical cars
(2003: The first synthetic biology conference is held at the MIT)
2004: Mark Zuckerberg founds the social networking service Facebook at Harvard University (soon relocated to Palo Alto)
2004: Mozilla releases the browser Firefox, created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross
(2004: Drew Endy of MIT founds Codon Devices to commercialize synthetic biology)
2004: Oracle buys PeopleSoft
2004: Google launches a project to digitize all the books ever printed
2004: UC Berkeley establishes a Center for New Media
2004: Vinod Khosla of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers founds Khosla Ventures to invest in green-technology companies
2005: Adobe acquires Macromedia
2005: San Jose's population of 912,332 has passed San Francisco, and San Jose is now the tenth largest city in the USA
2005: Andrew Ng at Stanford launches the STAIR project (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot)
2005: Oracle acquires Siebel
2005: Gina Bianchini founds Ning
2005: Google launches the web mapping system Google Earth that also offers three-dimensional images of terrain
2005: More than 50% of all jobs outsourced by Silicon Valley companies go to India
2005: UC San Francisco opens the "Institute for Human Genetics"
2005: The Letterman Digital Arts Center opens in San Francisco
(2005: Sales of notebook computers account for 53% of the computer market)
2005: Sales of notebook computers account for 53% of the computer market
2005: Yahoo, Google, America OnLine (AOL) and MSN (Microsoft's Network) are the four big Internet portals with a combined audience of over one billion people worldwide
2005: Silicon Valley accounts for 14% of the world's venture capital
2005: 52.4% of Silicon Valley's high-tech companies launched between 1995 and 2005 have been founded by at least one immigrant
(2005: Total revenues of ERP software are $25.5 billion, with SAP making $10.5 billion and Oracle $5.1 billion)
2005: Ebay acquires Skype
May 2005: Solar-energy company Solyndra is founded
2005: SUN's founder Bill Joy joins venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to invest in green technology
Nov 2005: Former Paypal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim launch YouTube
2006: Jack Dorsey creates the social networking service Twitter
2006: The Bay Area is the largest high-tech center in the USA with 386,000 high-tech jobs
2006: YouTube is bought by Google for $1.65 billion
2006: Jay Keasling inaugurates the world's first Synthetic Biology department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2006: Lyndon and Peter Rive found SolarCity
2006: The first Zer01 Festival is held in San Jose
2006: Roger Kornberg of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Andrew Fire of Stanford University is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, and George Smoot of the Lawrence Berkeley Labs is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
2006: Tesla Motors introduces the Tesla Roadster, the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells
2006: The world-wide web has 100 million websites
2006: Google acquires YouTube
2006: Walt Disney acquires Pixar
2006: Scott Hassan founds Willow Garage to manufacturer robots for domestic use
Jan 2007: 48% of Apple's revenues come from sales of the iPod
Jun 2007: Apple launches the iPhone
2007: Forrester Research estimates that online retail sales in the USA reached $175 billion
2007: The biotech company iZumi Bio is founded to develop products based on stem-cell research
2007: The biotech company iPierian is founded to develop products based on cellular reprogramming
2008: Piero Scaruffi organizes the first Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendesvouz or LASER in San Francisco
2008: The Silicon Valley has 2.4 million (less than 1% of the USA's population) generating more than 2% of the USA's GDP, with a GDP per person of $83,000
2008: Microsoft Windows owns almost 90% of the operating system market for personal computers, while Google owns almost 70% of the Internet search market
2008: For a few months San Francisco issues marriage license to same-sex couples
2008: Venture capitalists invest $4 billion into green-tech startups in 2008, which is almost 40% of all USA investments in high-tech
2008: Taiwanese conglomerate Quanta invests into Silicon Valley startups Tilera and Canesta
2008: Hewlett-Packard puchases Electronic Data Systems in a shift towards services
2008: There are 261 public companies in Silicon Valley
2009: Oracle buys SUN
Aug 2009: Google's market value is more than $140 billion
2009: BitTorrent accounts for at least 20% of all Internet traffic
2009: Facebook has 150 million users in january and grows by about one million users a day, the fastest product ever to reach that many users in five years
2009: President Barack Obama appoints Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, to be Secretary of Energy
2009: Tesla Motors obtains a $465-million loan from the USA government to build the Model S, a battery-powered sports sedan
2009: Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco shares the Nobel prize in Medicine and Oliver Williamson of UC Berkeley shares the Nobel prize in Economics
2009: Thomas Siebel founds energy startup C3 LLC
2009: Xerox puchases Affiliated Computer Services in a shift towards services
2009: Microsoft is the largest software company in the world with revenues of $50 billion, followed by IBM with $22 billion, Oracle with $17.5 billion, SAP with $11.6 billion, Nintendo with $7.2 billion, HP with $6.2 billion, Symantec with $5.6 billion, Activision Blizzard with $4.6 billion, Electronic Arts with $4.2 billion, Computer Associates with $3.9 billion, and Adobe with $3.3 billion.
2010: Google is worth $180 billion
Mar 2010: YouTube broadcasts the Indian Premier League of cricket live worldwide
Mar 2010: Apple is worth $205 billion, third in the USA after Exxon and Microsoft
Apr 2010: HP purchases Palm, a struggling smartphone maker
Apr 2010: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory plans to simulate the nuclear fusion of a star (more than 100 million degrees Celsius, hotter than the center of the sun) with the world's most powerful laser, called the National Ignition Facility
Apr 2010: Microsoft's IE has 59.9% of the browser market, followed by Firefox with 24.5% and Google Chrome with 6.7%
Apr 2010: Apple introduces the tablet computer iPad that sells one million units in less than one month
May 2010: SAP buys Sybase
May 2010: Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith reprogram a bacterium's DNA
Jul 2010: Facebook has 500 million users
2010: The smarphone market grows 55% in 2010, with 269 million units sold worldwide
Oct 2011: The world mourns Steve Jobs
Mar 2012: Pinterest becomes the third largest social network in the USA, surpassing LinkedIn and Tagged
May 2012: Facebook goes public, the biggest high-tech IPO in history
May 2012: SpaceX launches the first commercial flight to the International Space Station
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