Editing Silicon Valley (section)

===Rise of computer culture===
{{Main|Microcomputer revolution|Homebrew Computer Club}}
[[File:Invitation to First Homebrew Computer Club meeting.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Homebrew Computer Club]] was a highly influential computer hobbyist group in the 1970s and 80s that produced many influential tech founders, like [[Steve Jobs]] and [[Steve Wozniak]]. Pictured is the invitation to its first meeting in 1975.]]
The [[Homebrew Computer Club]] was an informal group of electronic enthusiasts and technically minded hobbyists who gathered to trade parts, [[Electronic circuit|circuits]], and information pertaining to [[DIY]] construction of computing devices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php |title=Homebrew And How The Apple Came To Be |work=atariarchives.org |access-date=April 19, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407041946/http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php |archive-date=April 7, 2015}}</ref> It was started by [[Gordon French]] and [[Fred Moore (activist)|Fred Moore]] who met at the Community Computer Center in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]]. They both were interested in maintaining a regular, open forum for people to get together to work on making computers more accessible to everyone.<ref name=Dormouse>{{cite book |last=Markoff |first=John |year=2006 |orig-year=2005 |title=What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NFbjjwEACAAJ |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |isbn=978-0-14-303676-0 |access-date=March 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905223806/https://books.google.com/books?id=NFbjjwEACAAJ |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The first meeting was held as of March 1975 at French's garage in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], [[San Mateo County, California]]; which was on occasion of the arrival of the [[Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems|MITS]] [[Altair 8800|Altair]] microcomputer, the first unit sent to the area for review by [[People's Computer Company]]. [[Steve Wozniak]] and [[Steve Jobs]] credit that first meeting with inspiring them to design the original [[Apple I]] and (successor) [[Apple II]] computers. As a result, the first preview of the [[Apple I]] was given at the Homebrew Computer Club.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wozniak |first=Steve |title=iWoz |url=https://archive.org/details/iwozcomputergeek00wozn |url-access=registration |year=2006 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0-393-33043-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/iwozcomputergeek00wozn/page/150 150] |quote=After my first meeting, I started designing the computer that would later be known as the Apple I. It was that inspiring.}}</ref> Subsequent meetings were held at an auditorium at the [[SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory|Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Freiberger |first1=Paul |author-link1=Paul Freiberger |last2=Swaine |first2=Michael |author-link2=Michael Swaine (technical author) |year=2000 |orig-year=1984 |title=Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer |url=https://archive.org/details/fireinvalleymaki00frei_0 |url-access=registration |publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]] |isbn=978-0-07-135895-8}}</ref>