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.
wow... (Score:1, Informative)
Mirror here (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/b45b564dd93222fa
Mirrordot Mirror (Score:1, Informative)
Try mirrordot.org. (Score:3, Informative)
Gizmodo has it too (Score:2, Informative)
Mac in the corner (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Uh (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mac in the Back (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Uh (Score:3, Informative)
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.
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: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:What a Heartthrob! (Score:5, Informative)
The Mac In The Back (Score:2, Informative)
Even Bill said that the Mac was the best computer, or some such at one time back in the 80's I'm sure the video is still on the internet. It's fun to watch with all the catcalls and hooting going on in the background, perhaps not as entertaining as Ballmer's Monkey-boy Dance.
What nobody seemed to take seriously at the time was that Gates & Co. would basically rip off the Gui ideas of the Mac and profit wildly from them. Apple should have learned from IBM, you don't give Gates an inch!
Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis (Score:5, Informative)
Re:LOL Blue Screen even then (Score:1, Informative)
Same for Apple hardware. Remember that they were developing a WYSIWYG word processor for the Mac.
{{The story goes that Jobs tried his best to convince the powers at WordPerfect (#1 in those days) to do a WYSIWYG app for the Mac. The WP guys thought that it was a foolish notion (who would want to see what the fonts and the page looked like on the screen any way?)
Enter BG. MSWord followed by MSExcel came out on the Mac, jumped over to the x'86 platform and eventually wiped out WP, Lotus123 etc.}}