Unpublished Photos of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley’s Early Days

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by sidwyn • 14 years ago

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Matti• 14 years ago

The photos on a single page: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/09/unpublished-photos-of-s...

state• 14 years ago

Thank you. Their interface was awful.

redial• 14 years ago

also relevant: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/08/steve-jobs-unseen-images-by-...

jpablo2• 14 years ago

Anybody can explain the background behind this one: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/wp-content/gallery/silicon-vall... ?

joezydeco• 14 years ago

Are you asking what is the background behind the caption?

"A Steve Jobs “to-do” list made at a company brainstorming session, with a set of very difficult technical challenges remaining for his team to solve in order to complete the NeXT Computer."

jpablo2• 14 years ago

humm, somehow I missed the caption. Sorry about that.

larrys3• 14 years ago

"Silicon Valley's Early Days"?

"Finally Surface".

What an unimpressive group of photos.

In reverse order here are the dates. Only two of Steve I think there were more of Adobe:

1998

1990

1997

1994

1988

1989

1987

1988

1993

1988

1991

1992

1986

1987

1986 s

1992

1986

1988 s

That title would make you think this is some significant find and centered around Steve and the Valley.

incision2• 14 years ago

Honestly, I did expect a bit more, but damn...

You put just 23 lines and some amount of research into purely shitting on the submitter's choice of title. Did that do anything to help your obvious disappointment?

larrys3• 14 years ago

"purely shitting on the submitter's choice of title."

It's the title of the article. It could also have been re-written by the admin's even if the submitter had chosen a different title (which no doubt would have resulted in less points).

Your comment smacks of "look what you waste your time on" in a belittling way. Perhaps I type fast, work fast and I'm not lazy and would prefer to back up the point I am making if I decide to make a point about something.

patdennis• 14 years ago

I hardly think that 1987 counts as the early days of Silicon Valley.

iyulaev• 14 years ago

No kidding. If this was the early days you'd have to wonder why it was called Silicon Valley in the first place.

georgemcbay2• 14 years ago

That was exactly my thought. Early days of Silicon Valley reaches as far back as the 1930s.

Learn your history, whippersnappers, and get off my lawn.

ChuckMcM4• 14 years ago

Many (most?) people put the 'start' of the technology culture in Silicon Valley around the same time that Stanford started the Applied Electronics Lab [1]

[1] http://steveblank.com/2009/08/17/stanford-crosses-the-rubico...

brudgers• 14 years ago

I expected a toddler in front of Fairchild Semi-Conductor.

at-fates-hands• 14 years ago

"For Menuez, so much of the current tech scene is preoccupied with profit, whereas the digital word he documented, at least at the beginning, was less interested in making tons of money and more interested in fundamentally changing the world."

I haven't spent a lot of time in SV or around the people in that tech scene, but this seems like accurate portrayal of the current situation.

Can anybody elaborate on his comment?

ChuckMcM4• 14 years ago

Sure, the engineers here are interested in building cool stuff, sometimes it becomes wildly profitable stuff, then a bunch of profit seeking types swarm in and try to figure out how to get that wealth, the snap and fight, much like piranhas stuck in an evaporating side pool, becoming increasingly unethical until it blows up on them. Then they die off and the folks working on stuff get to do so again with fewer interruptions.

Sadly they re-use the office buildings and so we lose the fossil record. It would be a fabulous art installation to do something along the ruins of Pompei but with places like Webvan, Pets.com, and Flooz.com.

stcredzero• 14 years ago

> “Today there is no patient money in Silicon Valley,” he says. “And that means that there isn’t enough time to make a similar kind of breakthrough.”

Is this true? If this is indeed true, what are the underlying factors? What does it mean "to change everything?"

One example: I suspect that lots of people fall into the trap of monetizing businesses in ways that trap them into old ways of thinking. Advertising is a prime example of this. I think advertising is obsolete. We should be using social graphs to make people more efficient at correctly judging products and extracting value from the transaction. (Amazon is doing some of this already, but the groups engaging in this are at arbitrary social distances. Make it easy for people of close social distance to collaborate, and you will have a game changer.)

Much of the social fabric of North American society has fallen apart. The kind of social capital that old communities had was powerful. Networks can be used to build this kind of social capital to great effect. (Witness the Arab Spring.) The emphasis should be on emergent trends, with some way of enabling users to efficiently filter information without deluging them.

ChuckMcM4• 14 years ago

"Is this true?"

No. But in terms of deals done it makes a much smaller percentage than the ones which expect a faster return. Any chip startup, and most hardware startups, are 'patient' money as there is a lot of R&D to pay off.

franze• 14 years ago

the set of all sets that do not include itself a.k.a. unpublished pictures published in a newspaper

CurtHagenlocher• 14 years ago

There's a picture entitled "Sunlight, NeXT. Sonoma, California, 1986." with the text "At tech startups it was rare to get outside or even see the sun for days at a time. A young NeXT employee working on an original Macintosh at a company retreat focuses on the task at hand."

But to me, the device clearly looks like a Macintosh SE, which wasn't manufactured until 1987.

hnriot• 14 years ago

Also, the photo of "Steve Capps" looks a lot more like Woz to me...

philwelch• 14 years ago

Steve Capps reportedly looked a lot like Woz: http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&...

nirvana• 14 years ago

Wow, WIRED has really declined. It is nice to see these photos, but the text is so often completely wrong, nonsenseical or misrepresentative that I'm just astounded.

erichocean• 14 years ago

Menuez: "A couple of co-workers who were falling in love celebrating with abandon at the Adobe annual holiday party of 1988. They were married shortly after the party but divorced a few years later."

The phrasing here bothers me. I'd rather it read: They were married shortly after the party and divorced a few years later.

Using "but" is editorializing to me -- like saying they shouldn't have gotten married in the first place, since they later divorced.

Unpublished Photos of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley’s Early Days

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