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How a California farm built Silicon Valley
Trace the grand history of Stanford University, from a family tragedy on a horse farm to the intellectual engine of Silicon Valley.
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by steve · Sep 24, 2026
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Chapter 1
The tragedy on the horse farm
1A devastating loss on the rails
2Designing the Farm with open spaces
3Jane Stanford saves the school
4The wind of freedom blows
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Chapter 2
The father of Silicon Valley
1The vision of Frederick Terman
2A legendary Palo Alto garage
3The Stanford Industrial Park blueprint
4The Cold War defense boom
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Chapter 3
Seeding the global internet
1The second node of ARPANET
2The birth of Google in a dorm
3The Stanford network and Cisco
4Yahoo and the early web guide
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Chapter 4
Science, wealth, and the modern dilemma
1The Stanford Linear Accelerator
2A hub for Nobel minds
3The medical frontier of gene splicing
4The price of success in Silicon Valley
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