Silicon Valley, best known as a region with the highly concentration of high-tech firms, spin-offs, startups, and also an important market for venture capitalists. However, not that many know thoroughly about its history. There is a recent video uploaded to YouTube (as embedded in the below) whereby you can watch it and grasp some basic data about its origin as well as the evolution of this region. If you favor of the text version instead of video format, then there’s a Web page purposely designed for the Silicon Valley history (click here). If you like me, love to read University working paper, here’s another link for working paper entitled, “the Dynamics of high technology firms in Silicon Valley (PDF).”