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North Texas's Silicon Prairie refers to north Dallas and Dallas and Fort Worth's northern suburbs, all part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.It is named for the high concentration of semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications, and other information technology related companies in the area.
The initial inspiration for the series was drawn from Cantwell's childhood in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, located within northern Texas's Silicon Prairie, where his father worked as a software salesman. The creators subsequently researched the contributions of Texan firms to the emerging personal computing industry during the 1980s.
Silicon Prairie. Dallas-Fort Worth Silicon Prairie: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas; Illinois Silicon Prairie: Chicago and Urbana–Champaign; Midwest Silicon Prairie: Omaha, St. Louis, Des Moines, Kansas City; Wyoming Silicon Prairie, also called the "Silicon Range": Jackson Hole; Silicon Sandbar: Cape Cod, Massachusetts [citation needed]
SpiderOak Inc. is a US-based software company focused on satellite cybersecurity. The company began in 2006 as a producer of a collaboration tool, online backup and file hosting service that allows users to access and share data using a cloud-based server.
Located in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and home to the University of Texas at Dallas, the Corridor is a strip about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) long along U.S. Route 75 (US 75) (the North Central Expressway), between President George Bush Turnpike and Interstate 635 (I-635) and is often considered an area of the Silicon Prairie.
Fortra is an American cybersecurity company based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The company was founded as Help/38 in 1982, rebranded as HelpSystems in 1988, and became Fortra in 2022. Fortra is owned by private equity firms TA Associates , Harvest Partners , Charlesbank Capital Partners , and HGGC .
Filipowski was the 1998 recipient of the Anti-Defamation League's Torch of Liberty Award, first for the Silicon Prairie (Chicago), for his support in fighting hate on the Internet. [citation needed] In 2000, he was named one of the 100 most influential individuals in the technology field in Upside magazine's 2000 Upside Elite 100 list ...
The Onyx was employed in early 1995 for development kits used to produce software for the Nintendo 64 and, because the technology was so new, the Onyx was noted as the major factor for the impressively high price of US$100,000 [1] – US$250,000 [2] for such kits. The Onyx was succeeded by the Onyx2 in 1996 and was discontinued on March 31, 1999.