Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine 637
So normally I resist the temptation to post this sort of thing because it just seems like a cheap shot, but
I just can't hold back on this one, so
Bill, if you're reading this (ya right ;) I'm sorry, but I just have to share this one. And I hope in 2021 I'm a billionaire and people are posting my yearbook pictures to take cheap shots at me too! Anyway,
We recently found pictures of a photo spread Mr. Gates did in 1983 for Teen Beat magazine. Enjoy.
Surprise! (Score:2, Funny)
Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
What happens if Slashdot puts a link to mirrordot? Will mirrordot mirror itself?
Re:Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
What happens if Slashdot puts a link to mirrordot? Will mirrordot mirror itself?
Then, my friend, the internet will hang up, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the universe.
Re:Mirror (Score:4, Funny)
You forgot: (Score:3, Funny)
Then, my friend, the internet will hang up, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the universe...
... as we know it.
--
Ryan
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" - Gandhi
Re:Mirror (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks for the mirror. That must have been the fastest /. effect I have seen.
Now, about the pictures. It looks like a spread for a geek porn mag. It almost looks like he is ready to dry-hump the monitor.
That might be the most stable MS GUI around he is fawning over.
Re:Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
More photos here (Score:5, Interesting)
AND... for the real freaks out there who need more than 2 photos, here are two other pics (one [fireinthevalley.com], two [emh.co.kr]) from the same day (well, he's wearing the same clothes, anyway; I guess that doesn't mean much), a classic early MS photo [museumofhoaxes.com] (NOT a hoax, despite the domain name), and Billy G's mugshot [mugshots.org].
Re:More photos here (Score:3, Interesting)
I got it from the google cache here. [64.233.179.104], since the original page is gone.
Re:More photos here (Score:4, Funny)
They sound about as effective as Springfield's police force.
Or is that three arrests for Bill Gates?
Re:LOL Blue Screen even then (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually, that looks like a Mac in the background - those pics may not be from 1983 at all but from... 1984! Yet another hideous slashdot innacuracy
What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Funny)
Mirror of Gates Images [blogspot.com]
Summed Up in One Word ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:2)
There definitely is something a little "off" about them.
look's like the giver's little bro! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:look's like the giver's little bro! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:look's like the giver's little bro! (Score:3, Funny)
Two words: Micro. Soft. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeech. I'd rather see Steve Ballmer's man-tits.
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Insightful)
If that was your first reaction: SEEK HELP!
=)
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Interesting)
Gates didn't age well but he didn't start off all that good either... dang what freak...
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:3, Funny)
And yet i'd bet a fiver he wouldn't want to swap places with you.
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:3, Interesting)
Though I doubt there were industry people scouring Tiger Beat to see what Apple was up to.
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Funny)
Shutting down browser, turn system off, low level format the drive, reload OS, cover system with kerosene, light it on fire, book tickets to a hermitage far from the existence of computers.
Still not clean, still not clean, still not clean.
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:3, Funny)
"You watched it! You can't unwatch it!"
Re:What a Heartthrob! (Score:4, Insightful)
if i am right, bgates was born in 1955
which if the photo was taken 1983 (most likely 1984), he would be.... 28/29
Scarey....
Nothing unusual about that... (Score:3, Interesting)
Still, he wasn't all that bad looking in those photos. Nerdy, sure, but then we already knew that about him.
Lordy, lordy, though; what unhappy changes time hath wrough.
Move Along Now (Score:4, Funny)
Bill G.
Ya know... (Score:5, Funny)
Mirror? (Score:2)
Try mirrordot.org. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mirror? (Score:2)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
C'mon, fellow geeks. If the goggles, they do nothing, do your part. And bring down those fucking mirrors too, in the name of humanity!
(There's a Lynndie England joke in here somewhere, and I'm going to hell for even thinking it.)
At least come to the photoshoot sober! (Score:4, Funny)
At least come to the photoshoot clean! (Score:3, Insightful)
Anthony Michael Hall looked way better in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" than the genuine article looked IRL!
Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! (Score:5, Informative)
Huge bags under the eyes are the mark of a real programmer---at least, they were in the days before you could display pornography on a personal computer.
Xcott
Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! (Score:5, Funny)
IBM is our friend. IBM has always been our friend. Microsoft is the enemy Winston.
OMFG (Score:2)
Those are awesome. Seriously.
In a continuation of the seriousness: any one else thinks he looks a little light in the loafers?
Words fail me... (Score:2)
And here I thought *I* wasn't photogenic.
Re:Words fail me... (Score:3, Funny)
-Jesse
Little did he know back then (Score:2)
Re:Little did he know back then (Score:2)
Despised?
OMFG (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OMFG (Score:4, Funny)
Images (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Images (Score:5, Funny)
Gates cheap shot on Slashdot? No way! (Score:2, Insightful)
Please don't hold back. It's so unusual to see Gates bashing on Slashdot. I think I'd enjoy the change of pace.
is it just me... (Score:2, Funny)
Mirror here (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/b45b564dd93222fa
Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:5, Funny)
He is posing like he wants to be wearing a bikini. I can hear him being told to "make love to the camera".
Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:3, Funny)
She's not a lesbian, dude. Trust me. I'm not saying she's the best lay or that she'll turn into the ultimate breeder or anything, but she definitely enjoys a good weiner bus drive into tuna town, if you know what I mean.
Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:5, Funny)
Bill: Make WHAT?
Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:4, Funny)
Faark. Bill Gates looks good in makeup. I bet he'd look -awesome- in drag.
(Hope I never see those photo's, though...)
Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? (Score:3, Funny)
Ok People (Score:2)
Linking to a Bulletin-Board with pictures is a 'Bad Thing' (tm).
No way (Score:2)
AH! (Score:2)
panting
Now that I've gotten that out of my system I was wondering how many others are disturbed that there is a photospread of Billy boy?
Gizmodo has it too (Score:2, Informative)
Is that the first... (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot (Score:2)
so (Score:2)
I'm sure he was just using it for 'research'
besides that, these are some pretty hot photos of mr. gates
Creepy (Score:5, Funny)
Also, look at his eyes, Bill Gates should definately lay off the pipe. Crack kills!
Mac in the Back (Score:5, Funny)
The right machine was his inspiration
Re:Mac in the Back (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mac in the Back (Score:4, Funny)
Yep. All Apple has to do is recompile for x86 and it'd be instant success and millions in additional revenue. It's a no-brainer. The roaring success of other commercial x86 offerings such as OS/2 Warp and BeOS pave the way.
Re:Mac in the Back (Score:3, Interesting)
Heh. Just like consumers are so likely to move to Linux.
I'm in no way disputing the worth or worthiness of the OS. I'm just saying that Joe Sixpack is not going to leave the Windows liferaft unless he's pushed into the drink at gun point. I have conversations EVERYDAY that go like:
Joe: I'm having a problem with my PC.
Me: Ok. What do you have going on?
Joe: My MicroSoft some
1983? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:1983? (Score:5, Informative)
And, here is the original image in Corbis [corbis.com].
So, as always, Slashdot is wrong. It is from 1985, not 1983. But, amazingly enough, it actually is Bill Gates, and it is real.
Re:1983? (Score:5, Funny)
Should we start a pool on when the dupe will appear? I pick Saturday and Timothy.
Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis (Score:5, Informative)
Bill's Mac (Score:3, Interesting)
Well, from the start Microsoft was a primary developer for applications software on the Mac platform. When the Mac was introduced, MS was not the behemoth it is today, but it WAS the king of systems software and languages already, so it was natural to turn to MS to develop a BASIC for the Mac (Applesoft BASIC on the II+ was a derivative/extension of the same MS-BASIC used on the Commodore PET). Furthermore, MS was trying to break through in the applications a
THE GOGGLES! (Score:5, Funny)
Mac in the corner (Score:2, Informative)
ACK! (Score:2)
Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's (Score:5, Interesting)
"To create a new standard takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and captures people's imaginations. Macintosh meets that standard."
- Bill Gates, Chairman of the Board & CEO Microsoft Corporation
While you're at it, check out the real article [macobserver.com] CmdrTaco found this photo at. Much more informative and interesting read.
Re:Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's (Score:5, Funny)
Your wrong, his best quote is:
"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." -- Bill Gates.
Bricklin sent waves of laughter through the auditorium by reading a passage from Lammers' interview with Bill Gates in which the young Microsoft founder explained that his work on different versions of Microsoft's BASIC compiler was shaped by looking at how other programmers had gone about the same task. Gates went on to say that young programmers don't need computer science degrees: "The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems."
Bricklin finished reading Gates' words and announced, with an impish smile, "This is where Gates and [Richard] Stallman agree!"
Source: Programmers at Work by Susan Lammers
(1986), ISBN 0914845713
Copyright (Score:2)
Remember.. dont be a pirate.
For once ... (Score:3, Funny)
I need to go home and shower now.
finally... (Score:5, Funny)
Editor training (Score:5, Informative)
These are pictures of mr. Gates POSING LIKE models usually pose for "Teen Beat". I mean, like, learn to read.
Tsk.
Image-Only Mirrors (Score:3, Interesting)
billg-teenbeat1.jpg [nuxx.net]
billg-teenbeat2.jpg [nuxx.net]
Enjoy!
I've been scarred for life! (Score:3, Funny)
Actually... Bill was a billionaire by 1987 (Score:5, Interesting)
You don't have until 2021; Bill Gates was a billionaire by 1987 - only 4 years from the day those pictures were taken. So... better get at it. Time's a-wasting.
OMG...Wasted Brain cells (Score:5, Funny)
Damm you Slashdot!
ahhhh god my eyes (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, that's just disgusting.
Gates commenting the images to the press: (Score:5, Funny)
Sing it with me people!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Too sexy for a haircut
So sexy it hurts! Yow!!
Actually, to be completely fair, he doesn't exactly look thrilled to be posing for the pictures. Imagine if Torvalds were cornered to do this. Or... in some frightening parallel universe where geeks are considered the ultimate sex objects: Stallman. (Brrr... I shudder at the thought)
My eyes!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Teen Beat? (Score:3, Insightful)
From now on (Score:3, Funny)
I second that! (Score:2)
Re:Uh (Score:2)
Re:Uh (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Uh (Score:3, Informative)
Re:At least its Gates... (Score:5, Funny)