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Driving near Paine Field recently, I saw a sign for the Technology Corridor. I didn’t realize any of those signs still existed. For the Technology Corridor is mostly forgotten, and although it is not ancient history, it is history.

As the “History Guy” on YouTube says: “It is history that is worthy to be remembered.”

The Technology Corridor was mostly in Snohomish County and stretched from North Creek in Bothell to Seaway Center in Everett along I-405 and Highway 525. The Technology Corridor was novel in that it came into being when competitors decided to cooperate.

Newly develop...