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Python

1991

HPython was created by Guido van Rossum, and first released on February 20, 1991. While you may know the python as a large snake, the name of the Python programming language comes from an old BBC television comedy sketch series called Monty Python's Flying Circus.

HTML

1993

Html was was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993. Since then, there have been many different versions of HTML.

Css

1994

1994- HÃ¥kon Wium Lie proposed the idea of CSS. 1996- The first version of CSS was invented. 1998- CSS 2 was released and work on CSS 3 began. CSS 3 was very different from the other versions, fot instead of being a single monolithic specification, it was published as a set of separate documents known as modules.

PHP

1994

PHP was conceived sometime in the fall of 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf. Early non-released versions were used on his home page to keep track of who was looking at his online resume. The first version used by others was available sometime in early 1995 and was known as the Personal Home Page Tools.

Javascript

1995

HJavaScript was invented by Brendan Eich in 1995. It was developed for Netscape 2, and became the ECMA-262 standard in 1997. After Netscape handed JavaScript over to ECMA, the Mozilla foundation continued to develop JavaScript for the Firefox browser. Mozilla's latest version was 1.8.5.

Steve Wozniak

1950

Stephen Gary Wozniak is een Amerikaans ingenieur. Hij richtte op 3 januari 1977 samen met Steve Jobs en Ronald Wayne het computerbedrijf Apple op. Zijn bijnaam is Woz.

Steve Jobs

1993

Steven Paul Jobs was de medeoprichter en topman van Apple en behoorde tot de raad van bestuur van Pixar Animation Studios. Na de overname van Pixar door Disney werd Jobs lid van de raad van bestuur van het bedrijf.

Ada Lovelace

1994

Augusta Ada Byron King, Lady Lovelace, geboren Augusta Ada Byron was een Britse wiskundige. Zij is bekend om haar beschrijving van de "analytische machine", de vroege mechanische computer voor algemeen gebruik van Charles Babbage.

Larry Page

1994

Lawrence Edward Page, beter bekend als Larry Page, is een van de oprichters van Google Inc., een bedrijf dat startte met een zoekmachine op internet. Met een vermogen van 117 miljard dollar behoort hij tot de 15 rijkste mensen ter wereld.

Rich Skrenta

1995

Rich Skrenta is een Amerikaanse computerprogrammeur en ondernemer die de zoekmachine Blekko creëerde.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology, innovation, venture capital, and social media. It corresponds roughly to the geographical Santa Clara Valley. San Jose is the Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. Other major Silicon Valley cities include Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale. The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the third-highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zurich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings Institution.

Technology Hub

Silicon Valley is synonymous with innovation and technology, housing some of the world's most influential tech companies, startups, and research institutions. Companies like Apple, Google (now Alphabet Inc.), Facebook (now Meta Platforms, Inc.), Tesla, and Hewlett-Packard have their headquarters or a significant presence in the region.

Origin of the Name

The term "Silicon Valley" was coined in the early 1970s due to the high concentration of silicon chip manufacturers in the area. Silicon is a crucial component in the production of semiconductors and computer chips.

Impact on Global Economy

The technology developed in Silicon Valley has had a profound impact on the global economy, transforming industries, creating new markets, and influencing various aspects of daily life.