When Bell Labs was doing cool stuff, few people knew about them. It's only retrospectively that they are famous, because we have all those historical tech figu

When Bell Labs was doing cool stuff, few people knew about them. It's only retrospectively that they are famous, because we have all those historical tech figures that went there and got blown away. Then this bubble expended, and year later, it became public, common knowledge. It may happen the same way for the places you are talking about.