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October 25, 2002
Friday
 
 
Samizdata slogan of the day
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Slogans/quotations

The world knows it as Silicon Valley, a name coined in 1971 by the editor of a microelectronics newsletter; but on the Rand McNally Atlas it is the Santa Clara Valley, a 40-mile by 10-mile strip running from Palo Alto to the southern suburbs of San Jose, at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area. It constitutes just over one-third of the 1312-square-mile Santa Clara County. In 1950 it was the prune capital of America.

    The opening sentences of Chapter 14 ("The Industrialization of Information – San Francisco/Palo Alto/Berkeley 1950-1990") of Peter Hall's Cities in Civilization

Comments

I live in a slogan?


Posted by Walter E. Wallis at October 25, 2002 11:59 PM

Yet Silicon Glen, which in 1970 was the Haggis Capital of Scotland, is now, in 2002, STILL the Haggis Capital of Scotland.

Or maybe they never meant anything to do with computers in the first place and they were refering to increasing number of tasty Scottish lasses with daft breast implants :)


Posted by molly at October 26, 2002 02:31 PM