It’s not called Silicon Valley for nothing. Andy Grove, the former Intel CEO who died Monday, is credited with turning the semiconductor maker into one of the world’s most important companies.

Intel was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore (of Moore’s Law fame), but Grove was there at the start of an incredible period for the computing industry.

In the same year that Intel was formed, famed computer scientist Douglas Engelbart held a demonstration on the potential of computers. Before a conference audience in San Francisco, Engelbart used a mouse, videoconferencing, windows, word processing and other technologies to illustrate the future of computing. This “Mother of All Demos,” crystallized the possibilities.

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