Silicon Valley Technology Milestones Timeline
Palo Alto California USA Native
1995-2000 dot com era SF CA USA
Palo Alto, San Francisco, California
Porn drives tech as it has done consistently last three centuries
1800s porn drives development of film photography on silver etched plates media images
Men are visual creatures
1930s RADIO FIRESIDE CHATS
1940s atomic bomb 1945
1950s print media Norman Rockwell
1950s television leave it to Beaver
1957-1959 Sputnik space race, rocket fins, cars
1950s mid century American futurism
1960s television The Jetsons space age future
1970s promise of flying cars by 2000
1967-1972 shakey the robot at SRI
Stanford research Institute
333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park
My dad and Shakey Team colleagues
Charlie Rosen, Bert Raphael, Dick Duda 3 were
Close, family friends over to our house often, MP
HP Garage Palo Alto CA
367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California
I almost rented this garage for $75 a month from
Strutz Levette, but it was less spacious than my other garage on same block of Addison St PA
1975 Steve Wozniak Steve Jobs Apple HomeBrew computer club Menlo Park CA
1978 VHS TAPE RECORDER cable to handheld video camera
1978. The first ever VHS portable recorder. The JVC HR-4100 EG
1985. Panasonic M1. The first full size VHS camcorder. The first VHS (VHSC) camcorder was the JVC GR-C1 in 1984
1985. Sony CCD-V8E. 1st 8mm camcorder. Video 8
1990s early MP3, audio 1987 MP3 video
1988, Digipro revealed a prototype of the world’s first solid-state drive to use flash memory
bulletin board systems: . CBBS – the first BBS on record, established 1978
BBS the well Santa Cruz CA
1985 Launch. 1993 7,000 members, a staff of 12, and gross annual income of $2 million. A 1997 feature in Wired magazine
Craig Newmark Java script programmer
1995 Craigslist.org
1998 Craigslist party at AnonSalon SF CA
1998/1999
Slack key Hawaiian guitar 1st ever webcast broadcast Santa Cruz internet
Produced by associates of anonsalon SF
1999-2000 peak dot com craigslist was so new many users did not understand suite of services
Classifieds / Items for sale / wanted
Community ( future branch personals )
Events
Jobs
Housing ( Real Estate/ Rent / rm apt res/comm )
Many users would use one category, oblivious others
2010 Craigslist stopped listing ads for "adult services"
2018 Craigslist removed online Personals
2020 Lockdown
1995-2014 BurningMan my 20 years Analog )’(
People living in the moment :) <3 )’(
2015 IG Instagram models controversy )’( BM
2014-2024 plug and play camp controversy BM
2020 Lockdown
2023-2024 AIart insidious ubiquitous FB web
2024.12 my Feed on Fetlife contains more lovely unique human females I can not seem to resist
2024.12.24 Fetlife AIart discussion writing
This is my list I’ve just typed this up this morning
I met Craig in 1998, saw him frequently, 1999, 2000 and much of that decade 2000 as he would frequently speak in SF in favor of
EFF.org electronic frontiers foundation
CreativeCommons.org CC Creative Commons
Creative commons license general idea is freeware open source as is my list here
This list encapsulates my assertion we are entering a singularity or unique crux precipice in time
See also: Black Mirror Netflix
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oh my goodness your comment hit me like a ton of bricks
That some people are around here, not to date never intending to meet up, so can use AI with abandon
THIS
Is a sad commentary on where have we come to in society post lockdown that we would actually be so removed from humanity that we do not intend to meet in person, but are living an actual artificial life
As I stumbled to edit this post to swap out the word OUR with the word ARE as I am using
Gasp dictation AI as it were crutch tool on my Apple iPhone, 14+ sigh
Am I them? Have I become the BOR e.g.? Am I using AI tools on my path to my eventual cyborg future that I distain so much
I have been blogging for advocating for every on earth to watch black mirror on Netflix to understand possible futures. We face in this dystopian….
I am afraid I may have had too much Internet
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oh goodness now I need a VENN diagram to map the so many juicy and rich topics of this conversation here today but in doing, so am I not calling on an actual AI technology to create a three-dimensional diagram of the intersecting concepts discussed here?
Double edge, sword this tech world we are blindly trapping into
Wandering into the abyss, sigh
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is this discussion not the single most intricate tying together of so many aspects of our life in 2024
Escapism
Body dysmorphia
Projection of fantasy self to ether world
Esteem
Self-confidence
Flittering, fluttering heart seeking possible, romantic connections
Casting out our fishing liner net for possible suitors
This topic is wildly rich beyond any conversation I may have stepped into so far in my crazy, unique, blessed life
Thank you all
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This moment we are experiencing is a singularity in itself
)’( BM As I exited burningman in 2014, after 20 years in a row, I felt gratitude for the best 20 years of my life intersecting with what may have been the best 20 years of burning man
2015 I still attended burning man desert art previews in San Francisco put on by the BMORG
So much discussion on Facebook and other social media sites about IG Instagram influencers ruining burning man
Narcissistic models, taking selfie photo shoots throughout the Playa, changing the actual nature of burning man which used to be individuals without cameras, actually living in the moment
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2020-2021 Lockdown has changed us
2022-2024 we did not recover
We did not go back to work as a whole
Business is shuttered, nightlife gone
San Francisco is a Ghost Town
Telecommuters never returned to the financial district
No more happy hour
Gen Z Gen Alpha millennials don’t drink alcohol as Gen X did not even as millennials did somewhat
We are becoming digital beings
We are becoming flesh and bone humans, living most of our lives on keyboard or iPhone, or galaxy Samsung you name it
Heck, the only thing that separates us now is whether we are Apple or android
We are one division away from becoming actual androids in that sense
Ray Kurzweil eat your heart out
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