Sony Walkman, 206–7, 216, 224
Source, The, 63, 257, 306
Southern California Computer Society, 134
Soviet Union, 4, 23, 29, 37, 42, 43–46, 48, 65, 245, 246, 260, 324
Space Day, 143, 156
“Spacewar” (Brand), 130
SpaceX, 402
Sporck, Charlie, 97, 101, 164, 212, 213
Sputnik, 42, 43–45, 47, 57–58, 87, 95, 113, 118, 219, 225
SRI International (Stanford Research Institute), 91, 127–29, 143, 211, 242, 247
Stanford, Jane, 17, 18, 29, 30, 127
Stanford, Leland, 17, 29, 30, 127
Stanford Daily, 366
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), 48, 78, 138, 317
Stanford Review, 252–54
Stanford University, 12, 14, 15, 17–19, 21, 27–29, 30–37, 39, 40, 47–49, 57, 58, 68, 74, 75, 77, 80, 82, 90–92, 95, 109, 114, 127–29, 133, 136, 141, 175, 176, 184, 201, 202, 211, 223, 225, 247, 251–55, 259, 260, 262, 263, 276, 277, 280, 284, 307–9, 351–55, 363, 367, 370, 374, 388, 406
Stans, Maurice, 89
Stark, Pete, 216–18
Star Wars, 143, 145, 156
Steiger, Bill, 168–72
Steiger, Janet, 172
Steiger Amendment, 169–71, 221–23
Steinem, Gloria, 251–52
Sterling, J. E. Wallace, 30, 31, 35
Stewart, Milton, 219
Stone, Larry, 210, 261, 293, 335
Strategic Air Command, 45, 48
Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI), 225, 246, 260
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI; Star Wars), 246–50, 259, 260, 300
Sundstrom, Bob, 322
Sun Microsystems, 223, 267, 275–78, 291, 305–7, 321, 332, 340, 341, 346, 354, 356, 364, 370, 392
Super Bowl, 243, 247, 265
Supersonic Transport (SST), 89–90
Supreme Court, U.S., 180, 330, 360
Swaine, Michael, 265–66
Swanson, Bob, 180
Swisher, Kara, 400
Sylvania, 15, 31, 43, 77, 110
Symbionese Liberation Army, 133
System Industries, 96, 166, 261–62
Tandem Computers, 3, 201–4, 363
Tandy, 182, 187–88
Tauzin, Billy, 347
Taylor, Bob, 64–65, 130
TechNet, 337–38, 339, 344, 347, 350
Technological Society, The (Ellul), 121
Technology Access Foundation, 322
Technology Education Act, 218–19, 224
Technology Opportunities Program, 125
Technology Reinvestment Program (TRP), 310, 311
Technology Venture Investors (TVI), 230
Telecommunications Act, 330
Teller, Edward, 114, 246, 259, 402
Tenenbaum, Marty, 68, 288, 290–91, 305, 310, 311
Tenet, George, 386
Terman, Fred, 9, 21–22, 24, 27–29, 30–32, 34, 35, 37, 40, 48, 49, 58, 67, 81, 90, 109, 127, 129, 204, 254, 263, 280, 307, 363, 404
Terman, Lewis, 21
Terman, Sybil, 22
Terrell, Paul, 140–41, 148
Tesla, 402, 405
Texas Instruments (TI), 99, 181, 187, 202, 211, 237
Thiel, Peter, 252–54, 355, 370, 380, 384–87, 395, 399, 403
Third Wave, The (Toffler), 187
Time, 20, 22, 188, 189, 190, 204, 205, 236, 274, 278, 303, 343, 369, 372
Time Warner, 149, 358
Toffler, Alvin, 121–22, 186, 187, 193, 323–25, 369
Toffler, Heidi, 121, 325
Tom Swift Terminal, 131–32, 145
Tools for Conviviality (Illich), 132
Traf-O-Data, 154
Trenton Computer Festival, 140
Treybig, James “Jimmy T,” 3, 202–4, 264
TRS-80, 157, 182, 183, 187–88, 257
Truman, Harry, 23, 25, 71, 125–26
Trump, Donald, 403
Tschirgi, Robert, 116
Tsongas, Paul, 192, 196, 215, 218, 222, 246, 292
Twitter, 372–74, 388–89, 398–99, 403, 410
2001: A Space Odyssey, 85, 236, 377
Tymes, LaRoy, 60–61, 63–64, 312
Tymnet, 60–61, 63–64, 255
Tymshare, 59–61, 105, 255–56, 382
Ullman, Ellen, 352
UNIVAC, 28, 113–14, 123–24, 153, 237, 382
University Computing Company, 58
University of California, Berkeley, 22, 27, 68, 90, 92, 113–15, 127, 129, 133, 137, 213
Upside, 286
USA Today, 377
Usenet, 257–59, 287, 310, 328
U.S. News & World Report, 265
Valentine, Don, 97, 149, 190, 308–9
Varian, Sigurd and Russell, 19
Varian Associates, 19, 31, 36, 38, 52
Vector Graphic, 145, 237
VeriSign, 310, 311
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), 207–8, 225
Video Brain, 142
Vietnam War, 51, 65, 86, 89, 92, 100, 110, 115, 118, 127, 224, 232, 245, 247, 301, 327
VisiCalc, 188, 227, 235, 240, 241
Volcker, Paul, 171
Walker, Eric, 25
Walkman, 206–7, 216, 224
Wall Street Journal, 90, 101, 104, 150, 178, 183–84, 189, 192, 233, 275, 310, 358, 390
Wang, An, 111, 204, 279
Wang Laboratories, 86, 110, 111, 168, 187, 192, 203, 235, 279
WarGames, 245–48, 256
Warner Communications, 108
Warren, Earl, 81
Warren, Jim, 140, 146, 150, 186
Washington Post, 170, 209, 243, 261
Watson, Emmett, 271–72
Watson, Thomas J., Jr., 13, 36, 48, 236
Watson, Thomas J., Sr., 36
Wayne, Ron, 148
Web 2.0, 361, 373
Weinberger, Caspar, 245
WELL, The, 258, 286, 287, 369
Wells, Katherine, 319
West Coast Computer Faire, 140, 150–51, 157, 186
West Coast Electronics Manufacturers Association (WEMA), 34, 35, 164, 166, 168
Westinghouse, 25, 26
White, Mark, 265
Whitney, Dick, 160
Whole Earth Catalog, 118, 128, 150, 257
Wick, Charles, 196
Widlar, Bob, 97, 112
Wiener, Norbert, 56, 119
Wikipedia, 368–69
Wilson, Charlie, 25
Wilson, John, 78
Wilson, Rand, 264
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 79, 164, 305, 342, 344–45, 354–55
Winamp, 357
Winblad, Ann, 274, 345
Winograd, Terry, 248, 254, 352, 353, 355, 369
Wired, 303, 327, 333
Wirth, Tim, 192–94, 215, 216, 222, 304
Wojcicki, Susan, 354
Wordsworth, William, 148
World Altair Computer Convention, 139–40
World’s Fair, 48, 49, 153
World War II, 7, 11, 18, 20–24, 26, 28, 34, 37, 54, 70, 78, 81, 352
World Wide Web, 20, 258, 287, 289, 303, 305, 307–10, 332, 341, 342, 353, 363, 371
Wozniak, Steve, 138, 139, 146–51, 154, 157, 178, 181, 189, 224, 232, 285, 304, 404
Wyly, Sam, 58
Xerox, 76, 128–31, 133, 147, 231, 234, 248
Xerox PARC, see Palo Alto Research Center
Y2K, 347–48
Yahoo!, 309, 352–54, 361, 362, 366, 368–70
Yammer, 395
Yang, Jerry, 283, 284, 308–9, 316, 377
Y Combinator, 399
Young, John, 2
13, 215, 223, 237–38, 295–97
YouTube, 365, 369, 403
Yu, Albert, 141–42
Zschau, Ed, 95–96, 166, 168, 170, 171, 197, 221–22, 224, 225, 250, 261–62, 331, 334–36
Zuckerberg, Mark, 367, 368, 370–74, 392, 393, 402–4
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret O'Mara is Professor of History at the University of Washington. She writes and teaches about the history of U.S. politics, the growth of the high-tech economy, and the connections between the two, and is the author of Cities of Knowledge and Pivotal Tuesdays. She received her MA/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Northwestern University. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the Clinton White House and served as a contributing researcher at the Brookings Institution. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband Jeff and their two daughters.
What’s next on
your reading list?
Discover your next
great read!
Get personalized book picks and up-to-date news about this author.
Sign up now.
The Code Page 66
