Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Jan 2008 21:13 UTC, submitted by irbis
"When you think about Silicon Valley you think about modern tech giants like Google, Yahoo and others, but did you know that this high-tech center of the Universe owes its existence to secret government cooperation dating back four decades? It certainly seems outlandish, but in a seminar given back on December 18th on the Google campus, entrepreneur and lecturer Steve Blank explained how the valley was born from billions of dollars worth of signals intelligence contracts from World War II and into the 1960s."
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2005-07-07
Stuff like TCP/IP...
It's obvious; the Fed has the depth of pocket, the size of market, the lack of requirement for profit.
The surprise is that someone is surprised.