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What is early, and who besides Steve Jobs (who I would not consider an early silicon valley pioneer anyway) fits that mold? Most were straight-laced tie-wearin
by georgeburdell 4y ago
What is early, and who besides Steve Jobs (who I would not consider an early silicon valley pioneer anyway) fits that mold? Most were straight-laced tie-wearing scientist-engineer types until the dotcom era.
- tauwauwau 4y agoRichard Stallman still looks like one to me :), I know its from late Internet era, but see following https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y?t=705 https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y?t=705
- chrsig 4y agorichard stallman has always operated out of cambridge, ma afaik
- ROTMetro 4y agoUmmm, while not 'Silicon Valley' the Santa Cruz tech scene from the 70s until the early 2000s very much looked like this. Maybe not the big guys, but the hundreds of 10-150 people shops trying to make a more technological world for sure. All the industry events I went to over the hill seemed fairly well representative of this as well. It had a lot more hardware elements so a ton of super hippie stoner hardware technicians that don't seem to be part of the current monoculture there. Larger name examples being Borland, Seagate, EMU, SCO. And ties? Jean/dress shirt in the 70, polo shirt khakis 80-early 2000s was 'formal'. I never saw anyone wearing ties other than visiting sale people or visiting 'money guys' pre 2000s, not even our AIX repair guys. Not like the people when I go back to the Bay Area now, where even their 'casual' dress scream of financial excess.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y agoLee Felsenstein, for one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Felsenstein