Colorado-Tech-Timeline

timeline.txt

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        title History of the Colorado Tech Industry: 1940 - 1969 
          1945: World War II Ends.
          1952: The Rocky Flats Plant Opens, a Department of Energy facility that produces plutonium triggers for nuclear warheads. : The Denver-Boulder Turnpike (now US 36) opens.
          1954: The National Bureau of Standards’ Central Radio Propagation Laboratory (CRPL) relocates to Boulder (now NIST). 
          1956: Ball Brothers Research Corporation (now Ball Aerospace) begins building pointing controls for military rockets.
          1962: Hewlett-Packard opens Loveland Campus which produces calculators and PCs. 
          1965: IBM opens its Boulder Campus.
          1966: The NCAR Mesa Laboratory opens in Boulder.
          1969: 4 IBM engineers leave to start Storage Technology Corporation, or StorageTek.
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        title History of the Colorado Tech Industry: 1970 - 1999
          1970: The University of Colorado Boulder launches its Computer Science Department. : The Denver Tech Center opens. United Cablevision, United Artists Cable, and AT&T Broadband open offices in the DTC. : Digital Equipment Corporation, or DEC, moves first its HDD manufacturing and then its mass storage development labs to Colorado Springs.
          1978: Hewlett-Packard opens its Fort Collins Campus.
          1980: The CU Computer Science Department is inducted into the College of Engineering and Applied Science.
          1992: The Rocky Flats Manufacturing Plant officially closes.
          1995: The Dot Com Boom Begins.
          1996: MapQuest is founded and opens its first office in LoDo, Denver.
          1997: WebRoot, a CyberSecurity Company, is founded and opens its first Denver office.
          
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        title History of the Colorado Tech Industry: 2000 - Present
          2002: The Dot Com Bust.
          2005: Sun Microsystems purchases StorageTek for $4.1 billion. 
          2006: Techstars is founded in Boulder, Colorado, by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis. They invest in early stage companies, providing entrepreneurs with mentorship during a three month accelerator program. : Google acquires @Last, a Boulder-based 3D modeling company, and the acquisition gives Google its first building in Boulder. 
          2010: Sun is acquired by Oracle Corporation for $7.4 billion. The StorageTek product line is renamed to "Oracle StorageTek."
          2014: Twitter acquires Gnip, a social media API aggregation company. The acquisition gives Twitter its first building in Boulder. 
          2017: Google opens its new $131 million campus in Boulder.
          2018: Amazon opens its first office in Boulder. : Facebook opens its first office in Denver.
          2020: The COVID-19 Pandemic begins. 
          2022: Twitter shuts down its Boulder office. : Twitter and Microsoft do a large round of layoffs.
          2023: Google, Meta, Salesforce and Twitter do large rounds of layoffs : Silicon Valley Bank Fails.