I just read a nice article by Tom Rigoli entitled “Experiencing Silicon Valley”, which, as you might expect, was about his experiences in Silicon Valley. I especially enjoyed this little box embedded in the story:

Who Named Silicon Valley?
Don C. Hoefler (1923-1986) coined the term in a 1971 series of articles that was published in Electronic News, the only major weekly covering the emerging semiconductor industry. Don was the West Coast reporter for EN at the same time I was West Coast editor for the monthly EDN magazine. I regularly bumped into him at press conferences. In his brief San Francisco obituary, they credited him with naming “Silicon Valley,” noting that he later quipped when asked about it, “How was I to know that the term would be adopted industry wide and become generic worldwide?”