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Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine

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.

637 comments

  1. Surprise! by sparkster812 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somebody's been /.-ed

    1. Re:Surprise! by dg41 · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Quickest /.ing ever, I believe.

    2. Re:Surprise! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Hey, you with the Mod points - how is this redundant when it was the first post?

    3. Re:Surprise! by sparkster812 · · Score: 1

      I think so. There were no comments and I hit the link, BOOM down already.

      Poor Bill, as if we didn't have enough reason to make fun. Those pictures... geez.

    4. Re:Surprise! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You must be new here.

    5. Re:Surprise! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, he's New Here.

  2. What a Heartthrob! by filmmaker · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our homoerotic, pie-eyed, playful floppy-disk tossing Overlord.

    Mirror of Gates Images

    1. Re:What a Heartthrob! by stupidfoo · · Score: 1

      I just put one of those pictures as my desktop background at work and now... I'm afraid people might get the wrong impression.

      There definitely is something a little "off" about them.

    2. Re:What a Heartthrob! by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 5, Funny

      That is scary. I'm half expecting him to start unbuttoning his shirt and rubbing his nipples.

      Yeech. I'd rather see Steve Ballmer's man-tits.

    3. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How appropriate for a magazine calling themselves Teen Beat. That name is just wrong, especially in this day and time will all the pedophiles.

    4. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How is that homoerotic? Unless...

    5. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      /me thinks they are not just monitors mirrored in the glass.... they are an artistic vision of what is to become Windows OWNAGE!!!!!!

      Lineage

    6. Re:What a Heartthrob! by DenDave · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Anyone notice the Mac in the back?

      Gates didn't age well but he didn't start off all that good either... dang what freak...

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    7. Re:What a Heartthrob! by jbrw · · Score: 2, Funny

      dang what freak...

      And yet i'd bet a fiver he wouldn't want to swap places with you. :)

    8. Re:What a Heartthrob! by DenDave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      only a fiver?

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    9. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      These photos also appear to document the first BSOD

    10. Re:What a Heartthrob! by rho · · Score: 4, Informative

      Microsoft was a huge Mac developer back in the day. Microsoft Word became what it is because of its success on the Mac.

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    11. Re:What a Heartthrob! by sgant · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yeah, I did notice that Mac...and in fact, if this was from a Tiger Beat from 1983, then they had a picture of the Mac before it was even released in 1984!

      Though I doubt there were industry people scouring Tiger Beat to see what Apple was up to.

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    12. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeech. I'd rather see Steve Ballmer's man-tits.

      If that was your first reaction: SEEK HELP!

      =)

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    13. Re:What a Heartthrob! by damiena · · Score: 1, Interesting
    14. Re:What a Heartthrob! by shokk · · Score: 5, Funny

      ew ew ew ew
      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.

      --
      "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
    15. Re:What a Heartthrob! by moonbender · · Score: 1

      I can't believe he's 30 years old in those photos. He looks like the PFY.

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    16. Re:What a Heartthrob! by artemis67 · · Score: 1

      Where's the one of Bill shirtless and reclining on the sofa with that "Come hither" look?

    17. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's been covered elsewhere in this thread, but the images on those screens are likely a word processor, displayed in the 'white on blue' color scheme which was popular at the time.

    18. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Yeech. I'd rather see Steve Ballmer's man-tits.

      If that was your first reaction: SEEK HELP!

      If that was the first reaction, help will seek HIM.

    19. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Taking off my pants, taking off my underwear, grabbing my hardened dick, howling like a wolf...

    20. Re:What a Heartthrob! by SenseiLeNoir · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Except... one worrying thing...

      if i am right, bgates was born in 1955
      which if the photo was taken 1983 (most likely 1984), he would be.... 28/29 ... on a magazine for 13 year olds???????

      Scarey....

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    21. Re:What a Heartthrob! by aztektum · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Try as you might, you can never poke out the minds eye.

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    22. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "I just put one of those pictures as my desktop background at work and now..."

      wtf???? Why????

    23. Re:What a Heartthrob! by phyruxus · · Score: 1
      >>I can't believe he's 30 years old in those photos

      Amazing what a steady diet of babies can do, huh?

      Yes, I'll take the call... Yes, speaking... evicted? .... summons? ... Guantanamo?

      afk - bbl

      --
      "A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
      "d'Oh!" ~Homer
    24. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Jugalator · · Score: 1

      Meanwhile, at the Linux headquarters, Linus made the connection between beer and freedom...

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    25. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey, wolf howl is not the key sound

    26. Re:What a Heartthrob! by JimFromJersey · · Score: 1

      Only in Soviet Russia....

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    27. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What about the Gates mugshot from back in the days when M$ was still headquartered in Albuquerque?

      Anyone know what he was arrested for?

    28. Re:What a Heartthrob! by KludgeGrrl · · Score: 1

      Gates didn't age well but he didn't start off all that good either... dang what freak...

      Gosh that's harsh! I think those eyes are dreamy.

      About the Mac, though -- doesn't it seem likely that the Teen Beat article was later than 1983? I would love to know what the text was... Presumably it was playing him up as a real dreamboat.

    29. Re:What a Heartthrob! by the+gnat · · Score: 1

      Presumably it was playing him up as a real dreamboat.

      "In his rare moments of spare time, Bill also enjoys puppy dogs, long walks in the park, mountain biking, Italian opera, and hacking 8088 assembler."

    30. Re:What a Heartthrob! by squallbsr · · Score: 1

      I am wondering if that was a Macintosh prototype because I know that Apple was trying to get Microsoft to write some software for use on Mac before they even were officially released. Check out this site that has a whole lot of stories from the startup of the Mac. And the first mac was released in 1984.

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    31. Re:What a Heartthrob! by keithcstone · · Score: 1

      I bet he first used "resistance is futile!" on dates.

    32. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      Shocking, toe-tingling, comment.

    33. Re:What a Heartthrob! by phyruxus · · Score: 1

      Yeah, not my best work. :-/

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      "d'Oh!" ~Homer
    34. Re:What a Heartthrob! by flacco · · Score: 1
      Yeech. I'd rather see Steve Ballmer's man-tits.

      i command everyone reading this post to imagine this in grotesque detail:

      bill gates fucking ballmer's floppy, sweaty man-tits with his massive tool.

      (i've been looking to bump up my foes list for awhile - that should do it)

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    35. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He apparently tried the Jerry Lee Lewis method of picking up women, but didn't have The Killer's personality to make it work.

    36. Re:What a Heartthrob! by MrBlue+VT · · Score: 1

      "Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation (details of which have been lost over time)."

      From this article on The Smoking Gun.

    37. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Chris+Burke · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Says you. My friend and physician, Dr. Jack Daniels, says differently. What's that, Doctor? It's time for another dose?

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    38. Re:What a Heartthrob! by ikkonoishi · · Score: 2, Funny

      To quote Futurama.

      "You watched it! You can't unwatch it!"

    39. Re:What a Heartthrob! by jimicus · · Score: 1

      reload OS, cover system with kerosene, light it on fire

      If you're going to set it on fire, why bother reloading it?

      (grins, ducks and runs)

    40. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      As if its not hard enough to find a good chick.
      This just turned another 10% of the female population gay!

    41. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Chris+Daniel · · Score: 1

      > Try as you might, you can never poke out the minds eye.

      Hmmm ...

      *stabs himself*

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    42. Re:What a Heartthrob! by aichpvee · · Score: 1, Funny

      And probably half of the gay male population straight.

      --
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    43. Re:What a Heartthrob! by aichpvee · · Score: 0

      MY VIRGIN EYES!!!!!!!!!!

      --
      The Farewell Tour II
    44. Re:What a Heartthrob! by StikyPad · · Score: 1

      And yet i'd bet a fiver he wouldn't want to swap places with you. :)

      Cause we all know money buys happiness. If he knew me, he'd want to ;)

    45. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't know which was worse, when my eyes were first scorched by the goatse guy or when I blindly clicked on the link in this story. I had the same reaction either way and quickly closed the browser before anyone in the room saw it. Damn my eyes.

      Though it was the thought of Balmer's man boobs that brought up a bit of bile.

    46. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Surye · · Score: 1

      Look at the EXIF data on the images. 1985.

      What? Slashdot headlines wrong? Someone call the press! Oh wait..

    47. Re:What a Heartthrob! by bob+beta · · Score: 1

      If he knew you, he'd want to buy happiness?

    48. Re:What a Heartthrob! by bob+beta · · Score: 1

      When Bill Gates last hacked assembler, it was 8085 assembler. He wrote the word processor for the TRS-80 Model 100.

    49. Re:What a Heartthrob! by NeoBeans · · Score: 1

      AiyeeEEee!!!! I've gone blind! Even in my mind's eye!

    50. Re:What a Heartthrob! by C0rinthian · · Score: 1

      I think many people here would consider installing Windows on an computer to be a destructive act.

    51. Re:What a Heartthrob! by carlmenezes · · Score: 1

      ROFL!! Parent got modded insightful!

      Only on Slashdot babay. Only on Slashdot!

      LMAO :)

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    52. Re:What a Heartthrob! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Bill also enjoys puppy dogs

      WHOA... that's sick! *howling noises*
  3. Move Along Now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing to see here.

    Bill G.

  4. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    His butt looks cute.

  5. slashdoted by geo.georgi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    0 comments and already slashdoted?

    1. Re:slashdoted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      same here. LOL.

  6. eeek by apsio · · Score: 0

    Wow, just wow. Disturbing to say the least. Bad mojo 2nite.

  7. Ya know... by hrieke · · Score: 5, Funny

    For once I don't think I'd get upset if Bill Gate's swarm of lawyers issued a take-down notice.

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    1. Re:Ya know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah, lawyers are expensive. All he needs to do is post a story to /. and watch the servers burn.

    2. Re:Ya know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't you think all this attention and reminding him of his happier days is giving him s chubby to remember?

  8. Mirror? by Chris+Siegler · · Score: 1

    It's probably about time that /. considered mirroring content they link to. It's already down!

    1. Re:Mirror? by garcia · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Mirrordot takes care of that for them.

    2. Re:Mirror? by cascino · · Score: 0, Redundant

      The mirrordot cache is up at http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/b45b564dd93222faa 7fc0335836835d1/index.html

    3. Re:Mirror? by Tackhead · · Score: 1
      > It's probably about time that /. considered mirroring content they link to. It's already down!

      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.)

  9. At least come to the photoshoot sober! by garcia · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that I can tell by looking at those photos is that there was a helluva lot better pot in 1983 than there is now.

    1. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by zev1983 · · Score: 1

      I hear G13 does you in after one shot... Government Issued Industrial Strength Weed.

    2. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      That's what every weed dealer tells you...

    3. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by drewzhrodague · · Score: 0

      You're supposed to get *that* stuff out of your shoe-tread with a stick. Smoke some better pot, wouldja?

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    4. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      We get hydroponic week in the middle of winter in Winnipeg that toasts you in one hoot. Way better than the crap that was imported from wherever in the 80s.

    5. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by tyman · · Score: 1

      Whoa man...Ballmer man I've got this idea thing...

      Windows man...pass that shit.

    6. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      haha aint that the truth.

    7. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by M3rk1n_Muffl3y · · Score: 1

      Looks like he's holding an invisible joint in the bottom picture ;)

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    8. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Xcott+Craver · · Score: 4, Informative
      That is not pot, but very very long hours spent coding.

      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

    9. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by BroncoInCalifornia · · Score: 1

      And to think this was the man who defeated the evil empire of IBM -- way back when IBM was the evil empire!

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    10. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Funny
      And to think this was the man who defeated the evil empire of IBM -- way back when IBM was the evil empire!

      IBM is our friend. IBM has always been our friend. Microsoft is the enemy Winston.

    11. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      We get hydroponic week in the middle of winter in Winnipeg that toasts you in one hoot

      Apparently so.

    12. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      First, Gates wasn't a coder.

      Second, the pot reference was about people who thought that this was a good idea.

    13. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      IBM loves making friends. Just ask the Nazis.

    14. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Any pointers as to what breed to choose? I'm going to buy seeds and plant some of my own (running short on supply from previous harvest and my old source of seeds dried up. Had to harvest before got my own seeds to continue the plantation too)

    15. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      at least, they were in the days before you could display pornography on a personal computer.

      Hey, when was that? There's always been ASCII porn.

    16. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, Bill Gates personally wrote the most popular BASIC interpreter in his day. Even my TRS-80 was displaying Copyright @1983 Microsoft Corporation. So go fuck yourself you faggot ass she-male.

    17. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No kidding!

    18. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Talking of evil empires, dont you think he has a creepy Montgomery Burns look about him?

    19. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're probably a troll, but I'll bite... I stay away from Indica strains, as they make me feel stoned. Sativa strains, on the other hand, make me feel high. I can get lots of work done and have more energy. Indica makes me want to eat junk food and watch television. As for specific strains, I'm kind of partial to Train Wreck. If you can get Jack Herer, that's a good one too. My favorite strain ever was Jack Herer x G13, but that's kind of hard to come by lately. One of these days I'll have to try to re-create that hybrid myself. Busy busy busy.

    20. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NL#5 if you are indoors. Good yields, good smoke (great if you are comparing to the usual street "hydro"), lots of trichomes, forgiving to grow, low stink factor, and short.

      If you have experience, like the super killer "up" buzz, and have a lot of patience, any of the big name sativas will work, like thai, haze, etc.

      Bang for the buck, NL#5 will not lead you astray.

      For outdoors, you will have to take a look at what cards mother nature deals you. You will be fighting the balance of potency vs time to mature. The best genes on earth will not help you if you have to harvest 3 weeks early to beat frost/cops/hunters/thieves. Durban is freqently mentioned as a good outdoor sativa (again, depending on where you are). In my area (eastern Ontario), M-39 seems to be the seed of choice for outdoors, or Friesland. Not bad IMO, but the quality is typical commercial. I have known some people who have had good luck with Shiskaberry, if you can find the beans (better taste than some of the other outdoor).

      Best of luck, and god help you if you are in the US.

    21. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by paranode · · Score: 1
      Talking of evil empires, dont you think he has a creepy Montgomery Burns look about him?

      Not really, but I could definitely see Smithers getting into it.

    22. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Paul Allen wrote that dumb ass.

      You probably think Jobs wired up the first Apple too you dip shit.

    23. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      All that I can tell by looking at those photos is that there was a helluva lot better pot in 1983 than there is now.

      No shit, man, I thought he looked like Ellen Feiss.

  10. OMFG by stupidfoo · · Score: 1

    OMFG

    Those are awesome. Seriously.

    In a continuation of the seriousness: any one else thinks he looks a little light in the loafers?

    1. Re:OMFG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's 'chic,' spanky.

    2. Re:OMFG by madprof · · Score: 3, Funny

      Is he dressed as an arab in other pictures?

    3. Re:OMFG by BoomerSooner · · Score: 1

      If you remember the 80's he could have looked a lot worse. Hell his hair looks like most kids I see today (60's ish mop top). They are truly wrong however with him *seductively* leaning over a monitor. I think I'm going to puke. Hopefully no one ever sees my senior picture again (mullet laden and very sad).

    4. Re:OMFG by randallpowell · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Seeing those pics made me feel dirty. Why is he thrwing floppies like shuriken? Is that a Mac in the background? No wonder people thought geeks were, well, geeky.

    5. Re:OMFG by RazzleFrog · · Score: 1

      I think that would be a great Pauly Shore movie - The Geek Sheik. Something in tribute to Jerry Lewis.

    6. Re:OMFG by say · · Score: 1

      Those are awesome.

      Don't worry, it's quite human to forget the "^H^H^H^Hful." part of a message.

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    7. Re:OMFG by gnarlin · · Score: 1

      Was Bill Gates ever really a geek?
      Could he even program himself out of a wet paper bag ?
      All I have ever seen was a greedy opertunistic bully who want's to own the world.

      imho he doesn't come close to classify as a geek,
      and a damn good thing too, I wouln't want his kind to soil our good name.

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    8. Re:OMFG by RollingThunder · · Score: 1

      Why is he thrwing floppies like shuriken?

      The natural enemy of the pirate is the ninja.

      Software pirate, software ninja. QED. ;)

    9. Re:OMFG by mink · · Score: 1

      I thought Robots were the answer.

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  11. Wow just posted and already /. ed. by WyrdOne · · Score: 1

    Next time change your site to not use dynamic controls before posting it to slashdot.

  12. Words fail me... by GearheadX · · Score: 1

    ..well, not really.

    And here I thought *I* wasn't photogenic.

    1. Re:Words fail me... by Enigma_Man · · Score: 2, Funny

      Haha, those are the photos _after_ they got done with makeup and post-shoot editing. Bahahaa.

      -Jesse

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    2. Re:Words fail me... by govtcheez · · Score: 1

      They've had 20 years to photoshop them and that's all they could get.

    3. Re:Words fail me... by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 1

      Wait till fark puts out a photoshop challenge on this pictures... if they haven't already...

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    4. Re:Words fail me... by lamz · · Score: 1

      That hardly seems necessary.

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    5. Re:Words fail me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah. I bet he had implants. Man, so so fake.

    6. Re:Words fail me... by govtcheez · · Score: 1

      I don't think Bill needs anymore lens flare or a domokun or anything, so Fark's probably not the place to go.

  13. At least its Gates... by ect5150 · · Score: 1

    At least its Gates in the picture, and not Balmer. I'm afraid of what he'd be doing ( ... more monkey dancing?)

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    1. Re:At least its Gates... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      more monkey dancing

      Well, something to do with a monkey.

      Spend the rest of the day getting that image out of your head.

    2. Re:At least its Gates... by Fjornir · · Score: 1
      Fireman.

      My mom says you have to call it a Fireman or else you get a spanking.

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    3. Re:At least its Gates... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Does anyone else find it amusing that he's posing in front of a blue screen?

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    4. Re:At least its Gates... by MR.Gates · · Score: 1

      Be careful you don't rub his helmet or he'll spit in your eye.

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      A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
    5. Re:At least its Gates... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      either you are a moron, or you're simply not funny. which is it?

  14. Little did he know back then by hsmith · · Score: 1

    what he would become. They all probably thought "yeah we can have a little startup software company"

    1. Re:Little did he know back then by lukewarmfusion · · Score: 1

      "what he would become."

      Despised?

    2. Re:Little did he know back then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, better than you.

  15. OMG! by drewzhrodague · · Score: 0

    Oh, mah gahd!

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  16. Site is Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Mirror anyone? Beuller? Gates?

  17. wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
  18. OMFG by xThinkx · · Score: 2, Funny

    This takes geek sheik to a whole new low

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  19. WOW no messages and already slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    what's in this spread?

  20. Its down by grusapa · · Score: 1

    Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information. The error returned was: Sorry, the server is too busy to handle your request, please try again in a moment

    1. Re:Its down by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Must be a teen-aged version of the Blue Screen Of Death. You can tell... it's way too civilized. :P

  21. You killed neowin, dumbasses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Sorry, the server is too busy to handle your request, please try again in a moment"

    Fucking idiots.

  22. Uh by Semite · · Score: 1

    There seems to be a Mac 128k in the background. Wasn't that released in 1984? How could these have been taken in 1983?

    1. Re:Uh by punkass · · Score: 1

      NEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDDSSSSSSS!

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    2. Re:Uh by SomeoneGotMyNick · · Score: 2, Informative

      This link talks about Microsoft being a 3rd party developer for Apple in 1983.

    3. Re:Uh by hcdejong · · Score: 2, Informative

      AFAIK Microsoft had access to Macs before the introduction.

    4. Re:Uh by Nspace13 · · Score: 1

      and you would be correct, i think this story was originally from boingboing here and they have corrected their site to say that it has to be from 1984 for the reason you stated (the apple computer in the background was not released til 1984)

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    5. Re:Uh by jedidiah · · Score: 1

      Of course they would have a pre-release version.

      Although, it could have been a big strange turquoise monstrosity like the Playstation 2.

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    6. Re:Uh by Nspace13 · · Score: 1

      and someone mentioned in another thread that there is a box for a microsoft product that wasn't released until 1985, i'm sure bill had the box well before then too, so the world may never know

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    7. Re:Uh by snorklewacker · · Score: 1

      I'd be more likely to doubt the dating on the pictures. More likely this is from 1984 or 85.

      Anyway, Bill looks a damn sight better in that pic than most of the lard-asses on slashdot, most of whom wouldn't have the guts to do something that goofy. Geeks are some of the most conformist people I know. Get in line and bleat the anti-bill hate, folks.

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    8. Re:Uh by BasilBrush · · Score: 1
      Anyway, Bill looks a damn sight better in that pic than most of the lard-asses on slashdot, most of whom wouldn't have the guts to do something that goofy. Geeks are some of the most conformist people I know. Get in line and bleat the anti-bill hate, folks.

      Wow, you really want to suck his fireman!

  23. Slashdotted... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    before the first post? I say Gates gets what he deserves if this server is an MS box.

  24. Stoned! by fr8_liner · · Score: 1

    Looks like he just finished a dooby! Far out Bill!

  25. Apologies by Nastard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Woah, what's with Taco's weird apology to Gates? Since when do we give a shit about his feelings? ...Unless that was the joke.

    (Side note: Love the Mac in the background)

  26. Images by savagedome · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is going to take vodka. A LOT OF VODKA to get the images out of my mind. I hate you CmdrTaco. I hate you. Sincerely.

    1. Re:Images by minus9 · · Score: 2, Funny


      Just wait till tomorrow when they post the pics of Steve Ballmer reclining over a sports car wearing a bikini.

      Excuse me while I go cleanse my brain with bleach and a wire brush.

    2. Re:Images by randallpowell · · Score: 1
      Just when we thought Goatse was bad, Gates80s comes along. Thanks, Taco, for causing me nightmares for rest of this week...and Bush isn't helping.

      Yes, I added a Bush bash to this thread.

      randallpowell's Law: 2000 to 2008, anything the appears on Slashdot will eventually be blamed on Bush.

    3. Re:Images by heritage727 · · Score: 1
      This is going to take vodka. A LOT OF VODKA to get the images out of my mind. I hate you CmdrTaco. I hate you. Sincerely.

      Buck up, man, it could be much worse. It could have been one of those nude photo sessions that some celebrities have in their past.

    4. Re:Images by Tassach · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'll see your vodka and raise you a bourbon.

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    5. Re:Images by llywrch · · Score: 1

      Slashdot links to an article about the recovery of some of Hipparchus' astronomical data, & readers respond with a long thread about a statue's penus. What did you think would happen?

      Next up: Which famous programmer started his career after hvaing over a hundred submissions rejected by Letters to Penthouse? Become a subscriber now, & Slashdot will furnish the URL to this & more. Read the very story that caused one porno editor to respond, ``Have you even figured out how to jerk off?"

      Geoff

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    6. Re:Images by EdipisReks · · Score: 1

      i'll see your bourbon and raise you a bullet. these images will stay with me until my hippocampus is smeared on the wall behind me.

    7. Re:Images by SharpFang · · Score: 1

      Raising my bottle of porter by a glass of smuggled russian spirit (95%) thinly softened with carrot juice.
      Ouch. Burns tongue! And stomach!

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    8. Re:Images by SharpFang · · Score: 1

      Yeah. I've shown them to my mom. (she's always suspecting me I watch pr0n, which is only maybe 40% times true) She said "But he's not nude!"

      (fuck, don't mix smuggled russian spirit with porter guys. I'm less than halfway throuhg the hlass and i'm already near;y passed away(

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    9. Re:Images by SharpFang · · Score: 1

      hippocampus - is that some kind of horse sex university?

      (drinking the last of the russian spirit and passing out/off/away *always sucked at phrasal verbs at english*)

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    10. Re:Images by EdipisReks · · Score: 1
    11. Re:Images by SharpFang · · Score: 1

      Holy shit.
      Being fuckin'drunk near barfing all over my keyboard (without evem looking at the Gayes' pics) I seem to understand that site. (or at ;east I think so).

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    12. Re:Images by VirtualWolf · · Score: 1

      I'll see your bourbon and raise you absinthe. :P

    13. Re:Images by Bucket+Truck · · Score: 1

      Rum, 3 shots mixed in a 12oz. glass of Mountain Dew. Repeat as needed. I can't remember anything...

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    14. Re:Images by dmaxwell · · Score: 1

      I may have to go straight to Jello shots for this one. The resulting blackout and barforama session might be enough to blot this from my mind.

  27. Gates cheap shot on Slashdot? No way! by goldspider · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "So normally I resist the temptation to post this sort of thing because it just seems like a cheap shot..."

    Please don't hold back. It's so unusual to see Gates bashing on Slashdot. I think I'd enjoy the change of pace.

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  28. is it just me... by kflash15 · · Score: 2, Funny

    or did he look like some sort of serial killer/mad man to everyone else? Especially in that second photograph... ::shudders::

    1. Re:is it just me... by rho · · Score: 1

      Actually, he looks pretty good. Looks a little bit like Toby Maguire in '80s stuffed-shirt attire.

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    2. Re:is it just me... by phyruxus · · Score: 1
      >>is it just me, or did he look like some sort of serial killer/mad man to everyone else?

      (I got a 7/10)

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      "d'Oh!" ~Homer
    3. Re:is it just me... by phyruxus · · Score: 1

      darnit
      http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz /

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      "d'Oh!" ~Homer
  29. Okay... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm guessing "Teen Beat Magazine" isn't the type of magazine it sounds like.

  30. Mirror Here by ShallowThroat · · Score: 1

    http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/b45b564dd93222faa 7fc0335836835d1/index.html Be warned... do you really want to see it? :P

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  31. Melinda's first glimpse? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Does anyone know if/when Melinda subscribed? Was this her first glimpse? love at first sight? Reminds me of the Bloom County series that involved a transformation of Bill (the) Gates into Bill the Cat...

    She: "Say those three words that drive me crazy"
    He: "No - - - Prenuptial - - - Agreement"
    She: "What's this in my mouth? a hairball?"

    Ack pptthhfffft!

    1. Re:Melinda's first glimpse? by Lovedumplingx · · Score: 1

      Ah yes...excellent memory. I'd forgotten that whole story line. Thanks

  32. Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by slungsolow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously? What was the article about? How in god's name can you justify having pictures like that?

    He is posing like he wants to be wearing a bikini. I can hear him being told to "make love to the camera".

    1. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by RobFlynn · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think the article would be a hilarious read. Unless, of course, the Teen Beat editors placed these two photos randomly throughout the magazine to frighten young girls across America.

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    2. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by TrippTDF · · Score: 5, Funny

      Photographer: Bill, Make love to the camera

      Bill: Make WHAT?

    3. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by torpor · · Score: 4, Funny

      Gotta love the lip-gloss, too.

      Faark. Bill Gates looks good in makeup. I bet he'd look -awesome- in drag.

      (Hope I never see those photo's, though...)

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    4. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah. We cannot even see his "microsoft" :-(

    5. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by ptomblin · · Score: 4, Funny

      And people wonder why my daughter is a lesbian.

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    6. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by SoCalEd · · Score: 3, Funny

      I suspect that under the sweater and trousers he IS wearing a bikini....

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    7. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is what Gates is "programed" for. Bill knew then, just as he knows now, that Microsoft needed a "spokesperson". He has made himself into the modle that "makes love to the camera". He will forever be known as THE geek by his own design.

      Yea, it's a horrid display of "OMFG!!! WTF?!?!?" but that is it's draw. I hate him but I really wish I had the things he has. I AM a truly ugly and "geeky" person but, I really would love to be a rockstar.

      What is funny is that even some of "I'm a 'Geek'" corporate drones idealize him for what he is and not what he does.

      I, however, just enjoy him for what actually happened. He was a nobody and he and Balmer started a butt-sniff company that dominates the world. Truly awsome! He was able to, then and "now", capitalize on his "abilities". Talk about a person to study.

      No, I use Linux on every box I have control over. However, I can't help but give creedence to a person that really helped the "computer" become what it is today in all of its good/ugly forms.

      Gates should go to hell for his hatred of open-ness and what the "computer" IS. He should be sainted for what has become an emergence of "tech savvy power users".

      My goal is to win the "tech-savvy-power-users" and teach them that the real computing world is not what they think. To them, life began with Gates and they know no other. Torvalds (allong with others) is the key to an electronic existance beyond their grasp without my (and many other's) help.

    8. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, creep, people wonder why you post random comments on Slashdot bringing up your daughter's sexuality.

    9. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by matvei · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bill: No rule to make target 'love'. Stop.

    10. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Cameraman: "make love to the camera"

      Bill Gates: "No, no, no. I've tried that before."

    11. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by mranchovy · · Score: 1

      Mr. Vice President, is that you?

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    12. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      And people wonder why my daughter is a lesbian.

      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.

    13. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Mycroft_VIII · · Score: 1

      That sounds a bit like the kinda 'insight' one gets in the last couple hours of a mild acid trip.
      Not that I'm calling names or being disparraging, I am just speaking from (ancient) experience. The ressonance with my memory of such events over a decade ago was to strong to ignore.

      Mycroft

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    14. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No kidding. It didn't work for Kerry or Edwards, either.

    15. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by rsadelle · · Score: 1

      Oddly enough, I have a straight girl friend who has the power to make other people think Bill's totally hot. The catch? It only works on lesbians.

    16. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hum, I now think I know where Mike Myers got his inspiration for the Austin Powers character.

      "Do I make you horny baby? Lets get under the desk and shag. Yeah baby! Yeaaah!"

    17. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by o'reor · · Score: 1
      Actually, DEC Unix had a much better error message for 'make' :

      $ make love
      Don't know how to make 'love'
      $
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    18. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by Council · · Score: 1

      He was NOT in Teen Beat. This story is wrong, the second time in about as many days that Snopes has scooped Slashdot.

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    19. Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat? by the+pickle · · Score: 1

      Oh, hi, Dick! Didn't know you and Mrs. Cheney posted to Slashdot!

      Tell George we said hi, will you?

      p

  33. Mirrordot Mirror by SirPrize · · Score: 1, Informative

    This seems to have got the images: MirrorDot

  34. Summed Up in One Word ... by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 5, Funny

    SASSY!

  35. Ok People by OverlordQ · · Score: 1

    this one should be a no-brainer by now:

    Linking to a Bulletin-Board with pictures is a 'Bad Thing' (tm).

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  36. I see a pattern by Hyksos · · Score: 1

    1983: Tiger Beat 2005: Beaten by Tiger

  37. Mirror by fireboy1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's the mirrordot location (shows the pictures).

    What happens if Slashdot puts a link to mirrordot? Will mirrordot mirror itself?

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    1. Re:Mirror by koi88 · · 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.

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    2. Re:Mirror by elecngnr · · 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.

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    3. Re:Mirror by meatbridge · · Score: 1

      thank you for mirroring this. it made my day.

    4. Re:Mirror by MR.Gates · · Score: 5, Funny

      ARGH. I think I'm blind now.

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      A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
    5. Re:Mirror by fsterman · · Score: 1

      In which case we just call AOL to the interweb.

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    6. Re:Mirror by p0 · · Score: 1


      Yes. Try browsing the comments in mirrordot. They have been removed! It says :

      Sorry, no nude pictures of Bill Gates here... We still love you, /. :)

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    7. Re:Mirror by GreggBert · · Score: 3, Funny

      ....There is also a theory that this has already happened.

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    8. Re:Mirror by Sox2 · · Score: 1

      that good was it?

    9. Re:Mirror by HogynCymraeg · · Score: 1

      You get cool Dr Who type visual effects everytime you visit mirrordot.

    10. Re:Mirror by GreatTeacherMusashi · · Score: 1

      quite obviously it will tear a whole in the astral plane, don't you know your D&D?

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    11. Re:Mirror by _anomaly_ · · Score: 1

      That's alright... I can just reinstall the internet from the AOL CD that I used to install it in the first place.

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    12. Re:Mirror by Mintee · · Score: 1

      Another one, don't hurt me please. :D

      http://freshstation.org

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    13. Re:Mirror by bhtooefr · · Score: 1

      Actually, 1.0 was pretty stable (well, not 1.00, but 1.01 wasn't bad). You see, there were only two or three third-party apps (PC Paintbrush was ported to Windows, and Aldus PageMaker was also ported to Windows). Everything else was MS code, and was guaranteed (well, back then, anyway) to not screw things up.

    14. Re:Mirror by adeydas · · Score: 1

      I guess mirrordot will make the real website as its mirror (since there is nothing original at mirrordot) ;=).

    15. Re:Mirror by niteice · · Score: 1

      Actually, I don't think there were any third-party (or even MS) apps for Windows 1.x. 2.x got PageMaker.

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    16. Re:Mirror by secretsquirel · · Score: 0

      nope

    17. Re:Mirror by bhtooefr · · Score: 1

      The MS apps were included.

      It does seem that you might be right on PageMaker, but here is proof that there was at least one Win1.x third-party app.

    18. Re:Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hah D&D....AND you have a livejournal set as your web address? You, sir, are a not a nerd...you are a weenie.

    19. Re:Mirror by bob+beta · · Score: 1

      Micrografx In*A*Vision, the predecessor of Micrografx Designer, was one of the first 'real' Windows apps. It came bundled with a Windows 1.03 Runtime install, since there really weren't any customers out there expected to be running Windows to install it on.

      It was/is a fairly nice vector-based drawing package. (nice, for it's time, and for it's hardware platform at the time) I had a lot of fun with it back in the day on my 8088 system with Hercules-compatible graphics and an amberscreen monitor.

      I thought Pagemaker was a Mac thing back then, and I'm fairly certain it was never ported to Windows 1.

    20. Re:Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You know, Beethoven went blind from masturbating.

    21. Re:Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      beethoven was deaf, not blind.

    22. Re:Mirror by Bush+Pig · · Score: 1

      And he was deaf from either STDs or French artillery (I forget which).

      At least he wasn't deaf from standing too close to the drummer in a rock band.

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    23. Re:Mirror by wyohman · · Score: 1

      Of course they would use a soft link with the bg option and the world would starting functioning again. All hail NFS!

    24. Re:Mirror by cthulhu11 · · Score: 1

      If only we'd heeded the advice "Kill it before it grows" back then.

    25. Re:Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the pics are listed here, along with an explanation of their origin.

      http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/gates.asp

  38. You didn't find anything. by juuri · · Score: 1, Insightful

    God Malda can you not attibute anything properly? You either heard this from a friend who pulled it from the first blog to list it, or you saw it on one of the more popular sites such as gizmodo, but you, and the other site admins, the "we" portion of your writeup didn't find anything.

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    1. Re:You didn't find anything. by Peyna · · Score: 1

      And I bet that everytime you tell someone about a story you read on Slashdot you tell them that's where you found it.

      Taking content from a blog, who didn't really come up with it themselves either, isn't all that big of a deal.

      Anyway, the blog linked to in the article took it from the real article linked above, and they didn't attribute it properly either.

      I don't care if people don't bother citing blogs, but at least cite the original article when possible.

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    2. Re:You didn't find anything. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    3. Re:You didn't find anything. by Peyna · · Score: 1
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  39. nice floppy by wwest4 · · Score: 1

    Huh... I always assumed he had a 3-1/2, not a 5-1/4. Must be Ballmer I'm thinking of?

    1. Re:nice floppy by Peale · · Score: 1

      Close to 8, according to the pictures! We were all wrong!

  40. May I be the first to say.... by malat · · Score: 1

    Hah!

  41. No Bill.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    .. I wont let you touch it.

  42. look's like the giver's little bro! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jesus Christ! not so floppy!

    1. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lol! :D

    2. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by sosume · · Score: 5, Funny

      awww you perv this is going to take *months* of intensive therapy, you insensitive clod!

    3. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      at least it wasnt "tini meat" magazine eh? Whoahaha

    4. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      screw that. i'm just gonna shoot myself in the head now. *BLAM*

    5. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      mydoom, indeed!

      No, you're a fag!

    6. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by smokeslikeapoet · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dude, that was so wrong. I'm going to go boil my eyes.

    7. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by Lord+Jester · · Score: 1

      THE PAIN!!!

    8. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by SteeldrivingJon · · Score: 1


      Um, that looks more like a void than a lump in his pants.

      "I have a dick like a clydesdale - in NEGATIVE SPACE!"
      - Bill Gates

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    9. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NSFW?

    10. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by joeljkp · · Score: 1

      Safe, but still wrong.

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    11. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by 0x000000 · · Score: 1

      Ill be right back, i am going to gouge my eyes out.

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    12. Re:look's like the giver's little bro! by ziggamon2.0 · · Score: 1

      Anyone else notice the Bluescreen Of Death in the background?

      Well, nice to see he's proud of it anyway =)

  43. No way by MankyD · · Score: 1

    Not a chance that's him. Doesn't look enough like other pics I've seen. I could be wrong, bu I would say its a look-a-like.

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  44. AH! by Slick_Snake · · Score: 1
    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

    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?

  45. FP by zenpiglet · · Score: 1

    Slashdotted already, so I'll waste some time while I wait by creating the first post ...

  46. Re:I am BillGatus of Borg. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    this post is irrelevant

  47. Try mirrordot.org. by AltGrendel · · Score: 2, Informative
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  48. Gizmodo has it too by McLusky · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. Re:Gizmodo has it too by checkitout · · Score: 1

      This was on Boing Boing yesterday, and Metafilter, and a million other blogs. So I wonder where slashdot "found" it.

    2. Re:Gizmodo has it too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You mean this article was posted elsewhere before being posted here? Wait... how's that different from every link posted on slashdot?

  49. What a sad comment on the power of money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    To think he has no problem whatsoever getting laid.

    And this thread is about women complaining about someone saying men and women are different....

  50. Oh baby by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Want to know what the really sick part is? I can remember ogling those pictures in the original issue! Such a wanna-be nerd I wuz.

  51. Is that the first... by Jumpin'+Jon · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...ever BSoD in the background?

  52. Slashdot by gmuslera · · Score: 1

    News for Nerds. Evilness that matters

  53. so by squarefish · · Score: 1

    did anyone else notice the mac in the background?
    I'm sure he was just using it for 'research'

    besides that, these are some pretty hot photos of mr. gates

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    1. Re:so by caulfield · · Score: 1

      Actually, MS's Mac software was driving some serious sales back in the mid-80s.

      It's there because they developed a lot of software for it.

  54. Creepy by Deanasc · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nerd Homoeroticism. Poses remeniscent of bikini girls on chopper motorcycles, only it's a geek in a sweater leaning on a state of the art green monochrome monitor.

    Also, look at his eyes, Bill Gates should definately lay off the pipe. Crack kills!

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    1. Re:Creepy by wwest4 · · Score: 1

      You know, homoeroticism is in the eye of the beholder.

      What are you doing Friday after work?

    2. Re:Creepy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What are you doing Friday after work?

      Sorry, I've got to stay in and try to get first post.

    3. Re:Creepy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There's nothing gay about this. Oh, wait, maybe I should have guessed
      this

    4. Re:Creepy by fireboy1919 · · Score: 1

      At least he didn't decide to go for more realism by posing on a motorcycle wearing a bikini.

      This is fake, right?

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    5. Re:Creepy by OwlWhacker · · Score: 1

      I think you'll find that it was LSD.

      He's still having hallucinations, such as Windows having the best security.

      : )

  55. Mac in the Back by fons · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the left machine in the back he was coding windows1.0

    The right machine was his inspiration :-)

    1. Re:Mac in the Back by metlin · · Score: 1, Informative

      Well, back then Microsoft was in fact writing software for the Mac - that could be the reason why there is a Mac in the background.

    2. Re:Mac in the Back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bill Gatus of Borg never coded anything, you got the wrong Bill.

    3. Re:Mac in the Back by stratjakt · · Score: 1

      That Apple and MSFT compete is pure /. myth. They've always been very cozy with one another. Any "competition" you see is pretty much an illusion.

      If Apple wanted to compete with MSFT, they could simply release OSX for the PC, and all of a sudden XP would have real competition.

      There's a reason this hasn't, and won't happen, and it isn't because Jobs is afraid of making too much money.

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    4. Re:Mac in the Back by artifex2004 · · Score: 1
      On the left machine in the back he was coding windows1.0

      I think, if you look closely, you'll see a box for Windows Environment 1.0 in the background, also...
    5. Re:Mac in the Back by Refrag · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, everyone know Microsoft was writing software for the Mac "back then." It's not like they continue to do so.

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    6. Re:Mac in the Back by metlin · · Score: 1

      Well, didn't mean to say that they do not continue to do so.

      Just that they have been writing since back then - bad wording on my part.

      Quite obviously they do, they've a $330 million market from selling products for the Mac.

    7. Re:Mac in the Back by evalencia1 · · Score: 0

      OH, you meant he was using the Mac as inspiration while coding Windows!!

      Surely I'm not the only one who immediately thought about that other kind of "inspiration" viewable on CRTs!

    8. Re:Mac in the Back by rbarreira · · Score: 1

      If you're talking about Bill GATES, you're wrong :P

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    9. Re:Mac in the Back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Back then does not mean not anymore.

    10. Re:Mac in the Back by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 3, Funny


      If Apple wanted to compete with MSFT, they could simply release OSX for the PC, and all of a sudden XP would have real competition.

      There's a reason this hasn't, and won't happen, and it isn't because Jobs is afraid of making too much money.


      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.
    11. Re:Mac in the Back by Refrag · · Score: 1

      Good. It's just that a lot of people don't seem to acknowledge the fact.

      Wikipedia has an interesting article that discusses the importance of the Macintosh in Word's development.

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    12. Re:Mac in the Back by sulli · · Score: 1

      Were these photos published before January 1084? If so, some clever spy could have used this to predict what the Mac would look like, as he was clearly developing on a pre-release machine.

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    13. Re:Mac in the Back by AndroidCat · · Score: 1

      If you look really closely, you'll see the prototype ASCII Clippy.

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    14. Re:Mac in the Back by metlin · · Score: 1

      For one, usability -- Apple's software is quite usable and intuitive, which is why they're as famous as they are.

      Secondly, if Apple can come up with something on the x86 where folks can play games that aren't available for the Mac, they'd sell real well with the Mac-heads.

      And most importantly, marketing is what sells software - not quality. OS/2 was much better than any of the alternatives, but still there is a reason why MS rocked the boat.

      We all know how good Apple is at that. People have been predicting the death of Apple time and again, only to have them come up with something so different, market them away to glory and watch the numbers climb.

      But the most obvious question is - why? Apple sells because its users like to think that they are somehow "different" from the others. If Apple were to become commonplace, that would no longer be the case. On the other hand, given Apple's treatment of its customers in the past, I would not be surprised if Steve Jobs shafted them in the future.

    15. Re:Mac in the Back by east+coast · · Score: 2, Interesting

      If Apple wanted to compete with MSFT, they could simply release OSX for the PC, and all of a sudden XP would have real competition.

      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 something is giving me an error message.

      Me: What's the error message? What application?

      Joe: Something about a fault. I was running MicroSoft.

      It is that pathetic. These people don't know, they don't want to know. They want it to work. All of the hype about Linux/OSX falls on deaf ears when you get to the core consumer because they're having a hard enough of a time as it is searching for pr0n and reading e-mails. They don't want to complicate their lives further. And frankly, in the circles of the general public, being a geek is still not cool. They just let you think that to fix their PCs. They don't want to be bothered with such high end technical talk such as "What OS do you run?"

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    16. Re:Mac in the Back by Lord+Kano · · Score: 1

      To be fair, one of the products on that page wasn't really written by Microsoft. They bought Virtual PC, Connectix did all of the heavy lifting.

      LK

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    17. Re:Mac in the Back by Tribbin · · Score: 1

      In fact. Gates told Jobs they were writing programs for the Mac. But instead they were porting it to DOS.

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    18. Re:Mac in the Back by martinX · · Score: 1

      The photos were for a 1983 edition of the mag. Since the Mac didn't come out until 1984, he had a nice early edition of the Mac it seems.

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    19. Re:Mac in the Back by vanyel · · Score: 1

      I hate to say it, but at least OSX actually has some real apps that actually work well for mere mortals. Unfortunately, that's not the case for Linux. OpenOffice is the closest, but I find I still have to resort to real Office occasionally to deal with stuff people send me. Getting closer, but not there yet...

    20. Re:Mac in the Back by atcurtis · · Score: 1
      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.


      IIRC, Apple did used to compile OS X on a Pentium with a Matrox Millenium graphics card... Mostly to check if they are coding clean portable code. The only part of this work that we would ever see is Darwin/x86. There were rumors that Apple was concidering Intel/AMD processors but with some homebrew propriety (non-Windows, maybe OpenFirmware BIOS) chipset if Motorola couldn't scale the G4 speeds. Fortunately for Apple, IBM came in to the rescue with their Power4 derived PPC970.

      It is not in Apple's interest to make OS X available on x86 hardware - mostly because it is still profitable for Apple to sell their hardware. But I would not be surprised if in some deep dark office within Apple, there is a renegade engineer who is running OS X + frills on some Intel-based computer.

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    21. Re:Mac in the Back by east+coast · · Score: 1

      I hate to say it, but at least OSX actually has some real apps that actually work well for mere mortals. Unfortunately, that's not the case for Linux. OpenOffice is the closest, but I find I still have to resort to real Office occasionally to deal with stuff people send me. Getting closer, but not there yet...

      While this is insightful as to the usefulness of an OSX system vs. Linux I don't think that your average Windows user is too concerned with this. If you can find a portion of them seriously dedicated to learning a new OS I think you'll find they'll also overcome the problems with porting what documents they may have in MS Office.

      I don't even really know what portion of the homeusers bother with Office to be honest. Aside from the free version of Word that is coming bundled with so many new PCs I doubt that the Joe Sixpacks have the desire to use Office apps. Maybe Excel. Even in that case a Joe Sixpack that uses Excel is fairly accomplished by most idiot-on-the-street standards (heh! Why you writing them fancy formulas Joe? You thinkin you just might be one of them rocketmen from NASA?!?!?).

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    22. Re:Mac in the Back by dustmite · · Score: 1

      And most importantly, marketing is what sells software - not quality.

      Not really, this is a common misconception especially about Microsoft. Strategy is the key that has made Microsoft a winner in every single market they've ever won. Read up about Microsoft strong-arming OEMs to control the distribution channels for operating systems sold on all new PCs for years. This had nothing to do with marketing.

      Apple aren't selling "different"; Apple's operating system is better. The design is better throughout, from an engineering perspective as well as an aesthetic perspective as well as a usability perspective. Mac users like it not because it makes them feel that they are "different", but because it really, genuinely is a nicer experience to drive a shiny Ferrari than a cheap Golf. There is nothing wrong with liking something that is better. (Granted, some of the fans become zealots, at which point they are no longer thinking about what is better but rather just "following an ideology", but these are no better than the anti-Mac crowd that blindly defend Windows PCs with illogical/incorrect arguments every time someone compliments a Mac. Recognizing and complimenting better engineering and design does not automatically make one a zealot.)

  56. coaster by Peartree · · Score: 1

    a friend of mine made a coaster out of it...

  57. I smell a ... by lukateake · · Score: 1

    Fark PhotoShop contest!

    1. Re:I smell a ... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 1

      Yes, someone please photoshop in the nutsack squirrel's nuts...Bill looks like a girl in that photo.

  58. Schwing! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Schwing!

  59. I second that! by imsabbel · · Score: 1

    A logo made of those would be funny, not dumb like the bill borg.

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    1. Re:I second that! by Spaceman40 · · Score: 1

      Can we vote?

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  60. 1983? by GerbilSoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Macintosh came out in 1984, and Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Both of these are in the photos.

    1. Re:1983? by Hank+Scorpio · · Score: 5, Informative
      Actually, if you look at the EXIF tags inside the JPG files, you will see the following comment:

      Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA

      And, here is the original image in Corbis.

      So, as always, Slashdot is wrong. It is from 1985, not 1983. But, amazingly enough, it actually is Bill Gates, and it is real.

    2. Re:1983? by Foofoobar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      So, as always, Slashdot is wrong...

      Oh right. I forget, if they don't agree with you enphatically, they must always be wrong. Well let us know which Redmond Office we too can be brainwashed at and we'll meet you there, ok?

      By the way, aren't you the same guy who programmed an operating system in Visual Basic?

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    3. Re:1983? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yes. Ask yourself how Bill could get a Mac in 1983!

    4. Re:1983? by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

      So, as always, Slashdot is wrong. It is from 1985, not 1983. But, amazingly enough, it actually is Bill Gates, and it is real.

      Should we start a pool on when the dupe will appear? I pick Saturday and Timothy.

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    5. Re:1983? by rbarreira · · Score: 1
      By the way, aren't you the same guy who programmed an operating system in Visual Basic?


      Wow, I would love to see that :P

      Give links please ;)
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    6. Re:1983? by Moonpie+Madness · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Soooooo Slashdot was right apparently, about everything about this article that matters and made it interesting and wrong about a pointless detail that led to none of the interest in this article. Well, I'm pretty much okay with that.

    7. Re:1983? by Foofoobar · · Score: 1

      This is right up there with the guy who developed an enterprise level web service using Access. It's sort of like trying to drive a nail through a 2x4 with a chunk of Jello.

      Good luck with that MS certification though. :)

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    8. Re:1983? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We can probably also pinpoint the date (most likely post-1984, as someone pointed out the Macintosh) based on there being snow outside, something that doesn't happen too frequently and doesn't last for too long in that area.

      There's got to be a database of "snow days" in the Seattle area for the past twenty years or so...??

    9. Re:1983? by IronTek · · Score: 1

      To self: how could Bill Gates get a Mac in 1983?

      Self: Well, self, the Mac came out in very early 1984 (January 24th to be exact). Microsoft was one of the earliest developers for the Mac.

      To self: Does that mean that they could have had development Mac units in 1983?

      Self: Indeed it does. Indeed it does.

    10. Re:1983? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the water-marked corbis image makes him look like he's wearing a monacle. which is appropriate.

    11. Re:1983? by Himring · · Score: 1

      Interesting. Good catch. Always look at the raw!

      Other interesting snippets from it:
      Adults
      Cream
      Hands on head
      Reclining
      Sweaters
      Altitude

      Yup, it was pr0n....

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    12. Re:1983? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If that's the way Bill "reclines in his office," it's actually even more hilarious than if he were posing for Teen Beat.

    13. Re:1983? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No dupe! Bad! My eyes couldn't take a second, uh, exposure!

  61. Don't let the M$ fanboys win! MOD PARENT UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There seems to be a lot of M$ astroturfing fan boys trying to mod and critical comments down!

  62. Bluerghre by fisheye1969 · · Score: 1

    ...there went my lunch.

    And how did I know that he was going to be wearing a sweater? Man, the 1980's were BAD..!

  63. THE GOGGLES! by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    THEY DO NOTHING!

    1. Re:THE GOGGLES! by marvinx · · Score: 1

      Wow, great Simposons reference!

  64. Mac in the corner by Racher · · Score: 2, Informative

    It looks like their an origianl developement Mac 128k in the corner of the desk. Possibly for working on / testing the first versions of MacWrite?

    1. Re:Mac in the corner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah. I'd say it is there for the (sloppy) copying job Gates was doing with Windows 1.0

    2. Re:Mac in the corner by ninjagin · · Score: 1
      I noticed that, too.

      He must have used the Mac as the inspiration for windows, I guess.

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    3. Re:Mac in the corner by the+pickle · · Score: 1

      There's a Mac in the corner, but I highly doubt it's for testing MacWrite.

      MacWrite was an Apple product.

      p

  65. ACK! by colonslashslash · · Score: 1

    Mein eyes! Ze goggles do nothing!

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  66. Bill giving the world the finger by Anonymous+Cowherd+X · · Score: 1

    Am I the first to notice his extended middle finger in the 2nd photo? Just before that photo was taken Bill was asked: "So, how would you best describe your attitude towards your customers?"

    1. Re:Bill giving the world the finger by antiaktiv · · Score: 1

      i was thinking it was a gang sign.

  67. Re:What do you mean "we" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    please post links to the pics of jobs & wozniak.
    thanks.

  68. Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's by amichalo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My favorite is this quote from Bill Gates:

    "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 CmdrTaco found this photo at. Much more informative and interesting read.

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    1. Re:Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's by ILikeRed · · Score: 4, 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

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    2. Re:Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's by White+Roses · · Score: 1

      And man . . . look at that neck. It doesn't even look like the same guy. Did Gates get neck reduction surgery or something? I thought *I* had a pencil neck in high school, but geez . . .

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    3. Re:Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's by Jacco+de+Leeuw · · Score: 1
      And here is the video to prove it!

      (From this website).

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    4. Re:Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's by bugnuts · · Score: 1

      I always thought his best quote was (paraphrased), "640k ought to be enough for anyone."

  69. hahahahah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seems like we're "Hash-Slutt'd".... =) I'll try in an hour or so..

  70. Copyright by moberry · · Score: 1

    Do You have permission to post this copy-righted image?

    Remember.. dont be a pirate.

    1. Re:Copyright by jxyama · · Score: 1
      i think this falls under fair use.

      slashdot is not posting them... and the linked websites aren't posting them for commercial purposes either, i believe.. it's just a forum, private people sharing information...

    2. Re:Copyright by bbc · · Score: 1

      "Do You have permission to post this copy-righted image?"

      Aw shucks, it's copyrighted? Does that also go for the bukake versions made later that session?

      "Remember... dont be a pirate."

      Arrr!

  71. Teen BEAT? by Trolling4Columbine · · Score: 1

    I wish someone would have...

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  72. Can't Resist.... by Egonis · · Score: 1

    AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

    What kind of warped photographer could take those pictures without vomiting? Seriously... what the hell was that? What was Bill thinking?

    This whole concept confuses and disgusts me... but it is funny.

  73. Not Gates? by zerosignal · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is Bill Gates. I think this is a mock-up, with someone who looks a bit like him.

    1. Re:Not Gates? by mfender9 · · Score: 1

      Seconded. As much as I would like to believe, I don't buy this at all. The photos just don't have that eighties look about them. They would have to have been scanned to exist in this form now, but they look first generation digital to me...

    2. Re:Not Gates? by SharpFang · · Score: 1

      Raw scan of 80's photo would stink with a raw scan of 80's photo. But 15 minutes of photoshop job (without editing the content, just filters removing noise, enhancing colors etc) and a scan of 80's photo will look like taken yesterday with a top-quality digital camera.

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    3. Re:Not Gates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They're real. These are well known photos that have circulated before in "retro" PC photo collections.

    4. Re:Not Gates? by kzinti · · Score: 1

      Perhaps the photo looks good because it's owned by Corbis and was scanned from the original negatives?

  74. less than 15 minutes by Horkdoom · · Score: 1

    and we have allready slashdotted the server.

  75. How long by WormholeFiend · · Score: 1

    How long before the Linux crowd counters with a photo spread of a young Linus?

    1. Re:How long by psergiu · · Score: 1

      How about those two ?

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  76. For once ... by Frag-A-Muffin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I so wished I *DIDN'T* RTFA. :(

    I need to go home and shower now.

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  77. He looks so exhausted. by coyotecult · · Score: 1

    Poor guy, bags and circles under his eyes as he so coquettishly poses, the next girly heartthrob hard at work building his empire of evil. We all can grow up to do great things, kids, look at these pictures and remember that.

  78. Alternate link by DroopyStonx · · Score: 1

    Photo spread

    He wants your cack.

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  79. Pics only mirror by wang33 · · Score: 1

    Here
    only found pics in cache not the page.
    Wang

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  80. finally... by jxyama · · Score: 5, Funny

    a replacement for goatse! :P

    1. Re:finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, Gatese!

    2. Re:finally... by jxyama · · Score: 1

      excellent! :D

    3. Re:finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      and still after all this time, you don't get the joke: it's goatse.cx

      you pronounce it like there is no "dot" in there. that's the joke, and the joke doesn't work any other way.

    4. Re:finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nope. It's an acronymn.

    5. Re:finally... by Doctor+O · · Score: 1

      And I don't know whether it's funny or sad, because it's so true. I, for one, welcome our new Billy Boy trolling overlords!

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  81. Kiss some billionaire butt, conformists! by Cryofan · · Score: 1

    Adore and idolize those at the top of the social hierarchy!

    TigerBeat =~ Slashdot;

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    1. Re:Kiss some billionaire butt, conformists! by MyLongNickName · · Score: 1

      Yes, it is much better to adore those at the bottom of the social hierarchy. They are the ones with the best ideas. It is always the damn man who keeps them down.

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  82. Bill gates : Versace inspiration. by kaos.geo · · Score: 1

    So this is where Donatella got the inspiration for the latest Versace ads!!! Sexy poses on an office setting! :P http://www.madonna-online.ch/m-online/news/pix/ver sace-05_001.jpg

  83. I always thought he was more of a Dynamite guy by ZipR · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps Bananas. Kind of a let down to know he was in Teen Beat.

  84. No worries... by stonda · · Score: 1

    about take-down notices, the news itself attracts endless swarms of nerds willing to see the pictures and thus a-bombing the sites themselves.

  85. BSOD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is that a BSOD I see forshadowed in the monitor in the background?

  86. Make-up! by b1t+r0t · · Score: 1

    Geez, with those shadows under his eyes, he looks like he's been pulling an all-nighter... a 72-hour all-nighter! They couldn't have sent a make-up person along with the photographer?

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  87. Low by mushupork · · Score: 1

    As comedians say "I have found the level of the room." --- "You're a McDonald...not a whore."

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  88. My sense of wellbeing... by Hynee · · Score: 1

    ... has been slashdotted.

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    Damn, I already moderated this topic. Now I'll have to log in with my sock puppet to comment.
  89. More On M$ by micromuncher · · Score: 1

    I've been chased by M$ a couple times in my life, and I've collected some pretty interesting things I think I should post...
    1) Microsoft Mug circa 1986 - "One company does it all."
    2) Microsoft Employment Package circa 1991 - first page bio of Bill touts the fact he was a drop out but succeeded anyway...

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  90. Gizmodo has the images by roj3 · · Score: 1
  91. At least come to the photoshoot clean! by MsGeek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And dude...HIT THE SHOWERS!!! Dear sweet Goddess, Billy-boy looks like he was on one of his legendary "haven't showered in weeks and I feel fine" jags. RMS has NOTHING on Gates before he got married. Both he and Paul Allen were legendary for their lack of hygiene.

    Anthony Michael Hall looked way better in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" than the genuine article looked IRL! :P

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  92. Too late now, girls! by koi88 · · Score: 1


    Too late now, girls!
    I'm sure every girl on his school/university had the chance to go out with him.

    But you refused. You decided to go out with Football players and the like.
    Now who's the billionaire?!?!
    Next time, think twice when you're thinking with whom to go out...

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    1. Re:Too late now, girls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yea so girls, go out with Me!

    2. Re:Too late now, girls! by SharpFang · · Score: 1

      At least the Football players don't need to outsource their sexual services for the girls.
      (How do you think, why is it called Micro-Soft?)

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  93. Assclown by AbbyNormal · · Score: 1

    Cmon, did you HAVE to post this an hour before Lunch???

    Think of the Children CmdrTaco! What about the children?

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  94. Thank you by KiltedKnight · · Score: 1

    I nearly choked on my coffee when I read that... not sprayed it on my monitor... choked. I'm still trying to get my brain to recover from the sheer concept of it. The image was not pretty.

    As for why Tiger Beat? Who knows, maybe someone found him sexy back then... or thought of him as some kind of yuppie geek who was on the rise.

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  95. Editor training by Knights+who+say+'INT · · Score: 5, Informative

    These are NOT a "Teen Beat" magazine photoshoot.

    These are pictures of mr. Gates POSING LIKE models usually pose for "Teen Beat". I mean, like, learn to read.

    Tsk.

    1. Re:Editor training by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 1

      ah.... i was wondering why pre-teen girls of 1983 would want to look at THAT

      so... why did he take them anyway? trying to impress Melinda?

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    2. Re:Editor training by bugbeak · · Score: 2, Funny

      These are NOT a "Teen Beat" magazine photoshoot.

      These are pictures of mr. Gates POSING LIKE models usually pose for "Teen Beat". I mean, like, learn to read.

      Tsk.


      Does it matter?

    3. Re:Editor training by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      One statement is true, one is not.

      If that doesn't matter to someone with the job title "Editor", they should give up that title.

    4. Re:Editor training by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you.

      OMG! SOMEBODY ATE THE VIRAL SIG BUNNY!

    5. Re:Editor training by NurseMaximum · · Score: 1

      I mean, like, learn to read.

      The FAQ says that the editors don't validate the accuracy of the stories, so that's not who's to blame here - it's the original poster... oh, hang on...

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    6. Re:Editor training by AndroidCat · · Score: 1

      He was practicing in case that Microsoft gig didn't work out. He didn't really want to be a CEO, he wanted to join a boy band. (Steve was more into heavy mental.)

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    7. Re:Editor training by bani · · Score: 0, Redundant

      I mean, like, learn to read.

      like, oh my god, fer sher? gag me with a spoon?

  96. OH MY GOD~!@~ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    TEH GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!!!!!!

    aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    Why, oh why did I have to go to that link... my dreams will never be the same again...

  97. Re:What do you mean "we" by stratjakt · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to find them but google image search just gives me 90000000 pages of him just standing at the podium announcing iPods. I've seen them though. Woz trying to look sexy is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen.

    IIRC, Jobs and Woz were featured in the same article that these Gates' pictures came from. It was some crap about these young folks who were becoming crazy rich messing with all this new computer stuff.

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  98. Yikes! by splatterboy · · Score: 1

    Que needed soundtrack for this, along the lines of Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra...
    "Hey baby..."

    shudder

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  99. Who gives a shit? by X_Bones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (see comment title)

  100. Aaaaargh! by Noryungi · · Score: 1

    My eyes! My eyes! It burns! It buuuuuuuuuurns! :-)

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  101. Why is CmdrTaco trying to take credit for this? by johnthorensen · · Score: 1

    Why is he saying, "We found"...?

    This has been all over every OTHER site in the world..why not say, "as seen on Blue's News" or something of the sort instead of trying to make it sound like /. did some serious investigative journalism on this one?!?!

    Oh wait. Did I just say "Slashdot", "serious", and "journalism" in the same sentence? Wait, come back...quit laughing...

    -JT

  102. Image-Only Mirrors by nuxx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey everyone... I've mirrored just the images here, if anyone would like them:

    billg-teenbeat1.jpg
    billg-teenbeat2.jpg

    Enjoy!

  103. Old news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    http://blog.monkeymethods.org/2005/01/bill-gates-s trikes-pose-for-teen-beat.html

  104. Wrong.. so wrong.. by Cap-America · · Score: 1

    *shiver* That's just wrong. Funny but wrong.

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  105. What do you want him to say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    "I shamelessly stole this from another site which gets stuff before me, here's their url and you should go there instead of slashdot."???

    Come on man, this is slashdot. If you don't like what the editors have to say, why are you still here?

    Can't beat the addiction, huh. Yeah, I know, you love slashdot but you also love to whine. There are many more like you in the same boat. Maybe we should form a SA (Slashdotaholics Anonymous) group, if one doesn't exist already...

    No, I'm not going to try and google for it. I've learned to live with my addiction.

  106. Is he giving us the middle finger? by Angstroem · · Score: 1

    Looking closer at the second pic I can't help but realize that he's about to show us his middle finger...

  107. Only Way by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1


    he could get laid in 1983...

    I'm still waiting for somebody to ask Melinda what she thinks about the direct quote from him in one of the bios about how MS can hire women for half the salary as men to do the grunt jobs "because they're only women."

    OTOH, she was one of those women, and she married him, so obviously hypocrisy is one of her issues.

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  108. Ewwwww!!!!! by CSG_SurferDude · · Score: 1

    Ewwwwwwwww

    That's worse than that Goat Sx dude.

    Where's the draino for my mind, so I can permanently clean those images from my memory.

    Ewww Ewww Ewwwww Ewww

  109. Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 1983! by johnthorensen · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Look at the Mac in the background of the first pic...either it's 1984, or someone at MicroSoft got a prototype for testing :-)

    -JT

  110. Bill Gates and Young Women by geomon · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates was born in 1955.

    The pictures of him were taken in 1983.

    Bill Gates was 28 in 1983.

    The average age of the Tiger Beat reader is 13.

    YUCK!

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  111. I've been scarred for life! by Chas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excuse the blood, I had to dig my eyes out in a hurry.

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    1. Re:I've been scarred for life! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Bad move. This image will remain in your mind as the last thing you've seen.
      Should have switched to some mare porn or something before digging your eyes.

    2. Re:I've been scarred for life! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Remember, you cannot gouge out your mind's eye.

    3. Re:I've been scarred for life! by Reservoir+Penguin · · Score: 1

      Poor child! He should get 30 years suspended and 35 years probation for that!

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  112. Re:What do you mean "we" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    stratjakt's got a boyfriend!
    stratjakt's got a boyfriend!

  113. Billy my dear.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Finally the world can see you the way I do.
    Love,
    Mom.

    1. Re:Billy my dear.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      argh! har har de har.

  114. Before the Revolution by Dixie+Flatliner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While I try to avoid the MSFT/Anti-MSFT field entirely, I can't help but have a great deal of respect for Gates circa 1983; I mean, in the photos there's this guy who's right on the brink of the greatest business success in the history of the world.

    1. Re:Before the Revolution by lysium · · Score: 1
      Yes, um, right. Are you sure you aren't rationalizing the strange attraction you feel towards his comely poses?

      Admit it.

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  115. Actually... Bill was a billionaire by 1987 by SwedishChef · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "And I hope in 2021 I'm a billionaire and people are posting my yearbook pictures to take cheap shots at me too!"

    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.

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    1. Re:Actually... Bill was a billionaire by 1987 by mooniejohnson · · Score: 1

      I think CmdrTaco meant by the time he's Billy-boy's age. I may be wrong, though. In other news... must... scrub... brain...

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    2. Re:Actually... Bill was a billionaire by 1987 by cheekyboy · · Score: 1

      Duh, its called inflation, in a static money supply, it would have taken longer, but we know banks make money out of thin air.

      So by 2021, when 40%/month inflation hits, we all will be uber billion aires, though not RICH, but paying for all the oldpeoples medical treatments and retirement in luxury while we slave away.

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    3. Re:Actually... Bill was a billionaire by 1987 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      banks make money out of thin air? How does that work? Or are you just stupid?

  116. Re:I am BillGatus of Borg. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is the best first post I have ever seen.

  117. You should be thankful! by Man+in+Spandex · · Score: 1

    Because of CmdrTaco, now people have a reason to look at pr0n! (the good one, not that)
    "get outta my head!!!!"

  118. Rotten.com Gates biography and mugshot by Titanium+Angel · · Score: 1

    Read the rotten.com biography for a few laughs, if you haven't seen it yet. It contains a priceless mugshot of a grinning Bill when he was brought in a precinct for some kind of traffic violation 20-30 years ago.

    1. Re:Rotten.com Gates biography and mugshot by geomon · · Score: 1

      I liked the following:

      "It was during his time down in New Mexico that Gates was stopped for a traffic infraction. Unfortunately, the complete details of his arrest and mugshot have been lost to time, either intentionally (if you're a conspirator) or simply because who would have thought anyone would give a shit about some geek getting pulled over 20 years ago."

      Rotten is priceless.

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  119. Right now, baby! by MsGeek · · Score: 1
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  120. Must...control...lunch in stomach... by Spencerian · · Score: 1

    Dreamy.

    If you're g-h-e-y. And a Beatles fan. Or a girl. Or just looking for someone rich.

    Someone did have a point. Macs did NOT exist in 1983. Unless Bill got a special one from Steve, this was a picture taken in early 1984.

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  121. The new Goatse? by chrono325 · · Score: 1

    Could this be it? gatese.cx anyone?

    1. Re:The new goatse? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      This demands poster-size reproductions.

      here you go. "The Rasterbator is a web service which creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool looking posters up to 20 meters in size."

  122. Re:Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 19 by pecosdave · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of the Apple Lucy? Of course being Microsoft it very well may be a proto type. MS and Apple have worked together since the begining.

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  123. Well. by Miketsmith · · Score: 0

    Hey, that's not too bad, come on.. he's cute kind of... At least he didnt have pimples all over and stuff, I'd love people to take a shot at me like that :D And hey, he's a billionair, he can do that ;)

  124. Gate’s car by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 0

    I, for one, welcome our homoerotic, pie-eyed, playful floppy-disk tossing Overlord.

    Kids, don't trust this man! I have also found a picture of his car.

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  125. BSODs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can see he was already working on his BSODs on the machine in the background...

  126. The new goatse? by digitalamish · · Score: 1

    Seriously, look at the pants! POWDER BLUE!!! This demands poster-size reproductions.

  127. Re:Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 19 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No, but I have heard of the Apple Lisa!

  128. Re:Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 19 by stratjakt · · Score: 1

    Considering MS wrote much of the software on it, your latter speculation would be the correct one.

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  129. And we kill another by RealisticCanadian · · Score: 1

    Woulda loved to look, but it got /.'d anyone got a mirror that works?

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  130. I never though I'd say this, by vagabond_gr · · Score: 1

    and I know I'll be modded down to hell, but don't you think that in these photos Gates looks almost... sexy?!?

    1. Re:I never though I'd say this, by Miss+Congeniality · · Score: 1

      Those are text-book bedroom eyes.
      meeeyoow.

  131. Stoned? by AviLazar · · Score: 1

    So he is either stoned out of his mind or hasn't gotten sleep in about three days. Man look at the dark redness around his eyes. I have seen racoons with lighter shades.

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  132. I can see... by FrankNFurter · · Score: 1

    gatese.cx in the making after having seen this pictures.

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  133. Apple Font by spud603 · · Score: 1
    While you're at it, check out the real article CmdrTaco found this photo at. Much more informative and interesting read.

    Did you notice in those photos from your linked article that the font in the Apple ads is identical to the one they still use today? wow.

  134. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    stupid free ipod bullshit.

  135. 1983? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But the mac in the background wouldn't be available until 1984...

  136. Sleep Deprived? by jen_savage · · Score: 1

    He could use a little sleep in those pictures I think.

  137. Speaking of which by digitalgimpus · · Score: 1

    Here's a spread Britney Spears did (may not be safe for work, depending on where you are).

    For those not turned on by Billy Gates.

    1. Re:Speaking of which by t_allardyce · · Score: 1

      not sure who looks worse :\ is she trying to fart or something?

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  138. Re:Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 19 by Nick+of+NSTime · · Score: 1

    It doesn't seem likely that Microsoft would violate the NDA by taking a picture of the prerelease Mac.

  139. What a hunk..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    alternate link... http://blog.monkeymethods.org/2005/01/bill-gates-s trikes-pose-for-teen-beat.html

  140. Surprise! Steve Wozniak by cranky_slacker · · Score: 2, Funny

    You think these pics of Gates are disturning, I've managed to dig up some "photos" Woz did for Hustler Mag back in 1986. And yes, I am still trying to get the image of man-boobs outta my head all these years later....

  141. Mug shot photos by the_mighty_$ · · Score: 1

    While we are on the topic of pics of Bill Gates, has anyone else seen his mug shots?

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  142. Re:Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 19 by stratjakt · · Score: 1

    Back in those days Apple was begging people to look at their stuff. The last thing they would have done is complain about some free publicity.

    Besides, noone in 1983 would have looked and said "oh wow it's the new model of the Macintosh computer that doesn't even exist". It just looks like another of the million boxes that were competing for the new home computing market at the time. Noone would know it from a TRS-80 or Coleco Adam.

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  143. Another Location with the luscious pics by Mike626 · · Score: 1

    ...is here.

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  144. LOL Blue Screen even then by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 0
    Notice the BSOD on one of the computers, not the one with MS on it but the other in the background looks like are favorite page fault/ kernel exception/ general failure type screen.

    Too Funny

    1. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by fuzzix · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Notice the BSOD on one of the computers...
      In 1983? More likely to be some of that lovely blue on blue text favoured by many IBM and DOS applications of the day. It was used a lot in text editors IIRC.

      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 ;-)
    2. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by wcb4 · · Score: 1

      Highlyt doubtful. DOS had no BSOD. That is a Windows thing. This was 1983, there was no Windows.

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    3. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by lamz · · Score: 1

      Actually, that looks like a Mac in the background - those pics may not be from 1983 at all but from... 1984!

      Bill Gates had early access to Macs. Maybe it was 1983 after all?

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    4. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by Lord+Kano · · Score: 1

      That is a 9 inch Mac back there. This was back when Gates and Jobs were friends. It's entirely possible that Bill got a Mac early.

      LK

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    5. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by paganizer · · Score: 1

      The one on the left in the background is an IBM XT or a clone; I'm not sure about the one on the right; maybe a Lisa?

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    6. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by shotfeel · · Score: 1

      Notice the BSOD on one of the computers,.

      Welcome to the dark ages of monochrome monitors and DOS.

    7. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nah, before the Mac announcement, all the Mac's at Microsoft were hidden behind locked doors.

      The picture's from 1985 or so - that "blue screen" is the splash screen for Windows 1.0

    8. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The one on the left is a PC/AT, which is still more evidence that the picture's from 1985 - just like the Mac's, the AT was kept in a locked room until it was announced.

    9. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by tverbeek · · Score: 1
      Furthermore, Microsoft - as an application developer - was one of the key early supporters of the Macintosh. Of course they had an pre-release unit to write the software for.

      And steal ideas from.

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    10. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
      Not necessarily so. In those days, MS probably had early access to the IBM hardware 'cos were "developing" a Disk Operating System for said hardware.

      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.}}

    11. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, you're wrong. You weren't there, I was. Microsoft had pre-production ATs (used for developing PC-DOS 3.0), that's true, but that machine couldn't be one of them.

      IBM required that all the pre-production PC/AT's be kept in a locked room, they were NOT allowed to be in random offices.

      Apple did the same thign with the pre-production Macintoshes.

      Also, as someone else pointed out, corbis has this image in its archives and they claim it's from 1985 (which is consistent with the other aspects of the picture).

    12. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by bhtooefr · · Score: 1

      This had to have been 1985 or later. Look at the front computer in the first shot. It's running Windows 1.x.

      FWIW, the BSOD didn't appear until Windows 3.1, and the OD part didn't come about until Windows NT 3.1 (I wouldn't be surprised if WFWG had fatal bluescreen errors). So, I have no clue on what's on the back PC. Maybe a command prompt where someone had some fun with ANSI.SYS?

      However, look elsewhere. See the Mac in the corner?

    13. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by midav · · Score: 1
      IIRC, BSOD originally meant Black Screen of Death and was a feature of MS Windows 3.0.

      With MS Windows 3.1, MS moved from black/white title bars to blue/grey ones and also used grey-on-blue instead of grey-on-black in BSOD. It was a purely marketing decision because Black SOD looked too gruesome.

    14. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by hatredman · · Score: 1

      Earlier! Applesoft (the BASIC version of Apple][ that replaced Apple I's Integer Basic) was entirely written by Microsoft.

      Did I say "written"? Sorry, it was entirely BOUGHT by Microsoft from someone else.

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    15. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by hatredman · · Score: 1

      No it's NOT!

      It is running the splash screen of MS Word 2.0. I had one of those ina an 360K 5 1/4" diskette back in 85.

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    16. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Actually there was X windows, which descended from other graphical user interfaces. Xerox's Alto, developed at their Palo Alto Research Center --PARC seems to have been the first (1978), followed by the Xerox Star GUI circa 1981 (take a look over at http://www.thocp.net/hardware/xerox_star.htm), which featured a complete desktop with icons, menus, mouse input, and windowed applications. Microsoft was (is) a Johnny-come-lately, Vanneuver Bush published contributing documents to GUI design --in 1945 (just after world war 2), and Doug Englebart did an amazing proof-of-concept demonstration that shocked and amazed the computer establishment --in 1969. The comment as stated 'there was no Windows' as the previous poster stated, obviously should have been 'there was no Windows --on *my* computer'. However, the statement was partially correct. There was no BSOD on any of the prior systems, just Microsoft's.

  145. Looking at the photos... by Alpha27 · · Score: 1

    I guess sex does sell software, even if it's done by a very thin, nerding looking little boy in a knit sweater and khakis.

  146. Anybody notice the Mac! by iluvcapra · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Anyone notice the Macintosh 128k-style machine sitting behind him, if you dare deflect your gaze?

    Notice the PC beside it. Makes for easy copying.

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  147. Hey, I've got a good idea... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Let's put Bill's pictures on the wall and throw darts at them.

  148. The Mac In The Back by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Informative
    Anyone notice the Mac in the back?

    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!

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  149. saw him on TV by spectrokid · · Score: 1

    Did an interview on Belgian TV a year ago where he got plenty of time to discuss his ideas. VERY disappointing. He didn't say ANYTHING that couldn't have been said by a junior trainee sales manager. We are great, and we have great products and great people blahblahblah... C'mon, the guy is a billionaire. His software sucks bollocks but he is probably the biggest businessman of the last 100 years. When will he stop worrying about his shares and start thinking about his place in the history books?

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    1. Re:saw him on TV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      but he is probably the biggest businessman of the last 100 years.

      You're sure Steve Balmer isn't the biggest businessman of the last 100 years?

  150. Blue Screen by rockwood · · Score: 1

    If you look at the three monitors in the pictures, you'll see they ALL have blue screens. This must have been the moment of inspiration for the Blue Screen of Death. It was that common that they had to implement it as a feature of the OS. That way he could explain it as an 'innovative' feature. Of course, in the first picture he looks like he's strung out on a weekend party binge.
    This must have been in the 'early' days. The microsoft manual on the desk in front of him hs about four pages in a 2-1/2 binder.
    Oh, and the large floppy he's tossing in the second picture, I wonder what is on that! Maybe destroying evidence of their source code - ummm I mean Apple OS.

    Oh No Mr. Bill!
    Poor poor Bill.

    --
    Never try to beat a professional at his own game!
    1. Re:Blue Screen by flibuste · · Score: 1

      You haven't been too much in computing have you? The blue screen of death dates from Windows NT, which dates from after those pics. The blue color is one of the few colors available at that time on monochrome monitors. Green Yellow or Blue

    2. Re:Blue Screen by rockwood · · Score: 1

      Actually I do/did realize that. I was making a comment in jest - insinuating that this is where the inspiration came from. I'm also well aware of monocrhome monitors - I have ancient systems sitting in my basement, various tandy's, commodore's and many others...
      I appreciate the input in an attempt to enlighten me, though I as stated - it was all in jest.

      --
      Never try to beat a professional at his own game!
    3. Re:Blue Screen by flibuste · · Score: 1

      ctually I do/did realize that. I was making a comment in jest

      My bad then...
    4. Re:Blue Screen by reverius · · Score: 1

      are you kidding? i'm absolutely positive i saw Blue Screens of Death with Windows 95/98, and i think i might remember them from before that (windows 3.11 for workgroups?)...

      the local authority seems to agree with me. quote: "The blue screen of death in one form or another has been present in all Windows operating systems since Windows version 2.0."

      also, "Microsoft Windows version 2 came out in 1987"

    5. Re:Blue Screen by flibuste · · Score: 1

      Your "local authority" is Wikipedia. With the recent noise about its content, you should try to find other sources of information. Moreover, when the article you point mentions a BSOD since Win2.0 (which very few probably have ever seen) in a middle of ONE sentence but fails to mention anything in the list of BSODs it provides and their description.

  151. Alternate Site by CypherXero · · Score: 1

    Here's another site that has the pictures on it.

  152. Two PCs, one Mac by wojci2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Now .. what is the Mac doing on this picture ? It even shows that other OS. How strange.

    --


    /wojci
    1. Re:Two PCs, one Mac by thasmudyan · · Score: 1

      Not really, Microsoft has always been developing software for Mac OS, you know. It makes kind of sense. Back in the days, they were actually pretty close...

      Though it has been "rumored" that the GUI of Mac OS inspired the MS people to look more into this whole Icons & Windows thing. *cough* (Though I really think that it would have been catastrophic to overall industry progress if the GUI idea had been legally restricted to only one company.)

  153. Obsessed. by Rotten168 · · Score: 1

    Slashdot and it's hive-minds are obsessed with this man.

  154. Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis by geomon · · Score: 1

    Or....

    Gates should invent a high-powered laser rifle. Then he could eviscerate anyone who used this picture.

    Both suggestions have the same likelihood of occurring.

    --
    "Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
  155. MOD UP or answer please? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (Doesn't quite look as BSOD, but what is it?)

    1. Re:MOD UP or answer please? by bhtooefr · · Score: 1
      Bill Gates Reclining on Desk
      Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0.

      © Deborah Feingold/CORBIS

      Photographer: Deborah Feingold
      Date Photographed: 1985
      Location Information: Bellevue, Washington, USA


      Doesn't say. However, the BSOD didn't even come close to existing then. The only similar thing was if you booted Win 1.x on a version of DOS that had been DOSVER'd to 4.0 or higher (back then, 4.0 didn't exist), and it would give this weird error message with "Incorrect DOS version" stuck in there.
    2. Re:MOD UP or answer please? by mink · · Score: 1

      Most likely MS Word for DOS.
      Some of the default/popular display settings were white on blue, or light blue on dark blue.

      --
      Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
  156. OFQ by Dan+the+Intern · · Score: 1

    You watched it! You can't unwatch it!

    1. Re:OFQ by ksiddique · · Score: 1

      IAL!

  157. Thats not bill gates dude .. by (rypto* · · Score: 1

    Thats not bill gates dude .. thats some retarted model advertising microsoft... It kinda implies "Even a retarted guy like me can use that monitor because its got microsoft imprinted"
    duh!

    --
    #3 pencils and quadrille pads.
    1. Re:Thats not bill gates dude .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's definitely Bill Gates. These are well known old photos from circa 1985ish...

    2. Re:Thats not bill gates dude .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lol u got serious issues with understanding a joke

  158. though_be_gone.patch by accad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wget http://www.slashdot.org/thought_be_gone.patch
    pat ch -p1 thought_be_gone.patch
    make clean
    make depend
    make all
    lilo
    reboot

  159. Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis by count0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bill Gates is the founder of Corbis...along with having investments in a lot of other companies.

  160. HaHaHa... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
    rotfl! rotfl! rotfl! rotfl!

    Oh, God! I just peed!

  161. Origin of the Picture by xeonon · · Score: 1

    I was just looking around the web and found out that the picture really comes from newsweek. Still not sure what issue it was, but I think with a little more looking I could find it. So this just puts to rest the thoughts in everyone's mind that there were little 13 year old girls ogling at the billionaire to be.

    Xeonon

  162. Re:Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 19 by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 1


    Besides, noone in 1983 would have looked and said "oh wow it's the new model of the Macintosh computer that doesn't even exist". It just looks like another of the million boxes that were competing for the new home computing market at the time. Noone would know it from a TRS-80 or Coleco Adam.


    Back in 1983, you could count the producers of consumer microcomputers on one hand. Then you could use the other hand to list available models. Each would be very distinct and easy to identify. Anybody in the industry with a keen enough eye would have noted that something unidentified and new was lurking in the background.

    Having said that - I doubt anyone would have given it a second thought. And, as you noted, Apple would probably enjoy the attention.
  163. proposal for showdown by illest503 · · Score: 1

    We ought to have a showdown of the most-embarrassing Teen Beat photo spreads ever: a grand competition of cheesy photos to end all such grand competitions. We can call it...

    ...wait for it...

    The Teen Beat-Off

    (I apologize for that, really I do. No, I don't.)

  164. Normally I don't do this thing either... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...I found a picture of CmdrTaco's mother! Here's the link: http://users.telerama.com/~kristen/blog/images/cmd rtaco.gif She's the one on the left. And the right, right behind Taco boy, the asian woman. Yes, Tacoboy has two mommies.

  165. OMG...Wasted Brain cells by C.+Alan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somewhere, deep in my brain, there are two brain cell that have registered and stored those images.... and I will never get those brain cell back.

    Damm you Slashdot!

  166. I think it's kind cute. by mellon · · Score: 1

    Looking back on my nerd roots at that time, I looked a lot worse. The thing that strikes me about those pictures is how much he's aged (no surprise, but it's still striking). Time waits for no man (women either).

  167. eeek! by thegnu · · Score: 0

    I think the Britney Spears crotch shot was more acceptable at my workplace than than Bill Gates all slinky and sexy.

    RRWWAAAAOORR!

    --
    Please stop stalking me, bro.
  168. ahhhh god my eyes by the+arbiter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please, please bring back goatse instead.

    Seriously, that's just disgusting.

    --
    Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
    1. Re:ahhhh god my eyes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey perv,
      Feast your eyes here: http://goat.cx/

  169. The pictures are fake! by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 1

    This is fake, right?

    Yes, it's fake. You see the padded muscles under the sweater.

  170. YIKES! by Amdmhz · · Score: 1

    I just threw up a little bit in my mouth!

  171. Don't complain... by inertia187 · · Score: 1

    People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation.

    --
    A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
  172. Okay by Sheepdot · · Score: 1

    More old Gate's images (since you're into that kind of thing):
    http://www.emh.co.kr/images/bill_gates.jp g

    http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/business/bill- ga tes/allen_gates.jpg (Rotten.com, but clean, imagine that!)

    http://www.cvm.qc.ca/mlaflamme/info/WhoseWho/b_g at es1.jpg

    http://www.ehsandiary.com/archives/bill%20gates. jp g

    (The image: Actually from Newsweek)
    http://www.jmusheneaux.com/WINDOWS/BILL %20GATES%20 NEWSWEEK.jpg

    Nother old image.
    http://www.jmusheneaux.com/VERSE-OPINON2/g ates.jpg

    These were found via Google's image search.

  173. Now we know.... by eRondeau · · Score: 1

    I always figured he named his company after his medical condition!

  174. They were planning ahead. :) by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 1

    Clearly, previous generations had faith that future generations would correct this tragedy. By doing this, they have made it easier for us to extract Bill's likeness out of the photograph and manipulate it as we deem necessary.

  175. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  176. Credit where credit is due. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    These were most likely found via Boing Boing. You would think the founder of one of the oldest blogs there are would know a little about blog etiquette.

  177. No nudes, please dear god no nudes by the_rev_matt · · Score: 1

    I call upon whatever gods there may be to spare us from seeing the rest of these photos, wherein a clearly stoned billg loosens up and strips down.

    --
    this is getting old and so are you

    blog

  178. CAREFUL by rustamb · · Score: 1

    These pics are NSFW

  179. OK by groyse · · Score: 0

    So you've got photos of Bill Gates in some sort of provocative pose. But the funny part is, the monitor he is leaning on has the word "Microsoft" on the screen. What's that describing?

  180. Gates commenting the images to the press: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I was young and I needed the money."

  181. Re:I am BillGatus of Borg. by northcat · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't seen this :)

  182. You have to understand. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    It was another time. A more innocent time.
    A time when wholesome music such as Rick Astley, Madonna and Bananarama filled the air.
    A time when the lizards from Sirius invaded our television sets, and when Karate Kid was the rage among the kids.

    It was a time when blue slacks were the norm.

  183. Doh! I mean 1984 by sulli · · Score: 1

    If there is a mistake...well, you should have used the 'Preview' button!

    --

    sulli
    RTFJ.
  184. Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis by geomon · · Score: 1

    I guess you've never been lampooned before.

    Your suggestion has as much merit as Gates using deadly force to prohibit distribution of these photos.

    Get it?

    --
    "Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
  185. In the year of 2005... by Jugalator · · Score: 1

    ... the long forgotten images to succeed the goatse guy were unveiled.

    --
    Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
  186. You forgot: by sik0fewl · · Score: 2, 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

    --
    I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
    1. Re:You forgot: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is a reason why I disabled sigs on my profile, so that I don't have to read your stupid two liners.

    2. Re:You forgot: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      His is even worse than usual, because it's so liberal it's beyond braindead.

    3. Re:You forgot: by sik0fewl · · Score: 1

      What!? Ghandi is liberal? Someone stop the presses!

      --
      I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
    4. Re:You forgot: by Bush+Pig · · Score: 1

      Clearly you're lying, or you wouldn't have noticed you should have disabled sigs.

      I _like_ his sig.

      --
      What a long, strange trip it's been.
  187. Ugh by mlylecarlin · · Score: 1

    Kernel patch to ban that, please.

  188. Re:Gates cheap shot on Slashdot? No way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I don't know..maybe it'd encourage a few others to do the same, then more, then before you know it, EVERYONE on slashdot is doing it.

  189. Not an Apple Lisa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have heard of the Apple LISA (not Lucy), and even seen one in person. That is not a Lisa - it had a very different case design than the original Mac.

  190. Re:I am BillGatus of Borg. by sjrstory · · Score: 2, Funny

    Evidently I have no sense of humor :/

  191. Re:I am BillGatus of Borg. by northcat · · Score: 1

    Oh wait, wrong link, this is the one.

  192. More photos here by JavaRob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's a mirror, another blog.

    AND... for the real freaks out there who need more than 2 photos, here are two other pics (one, two) from the same day (well, he's wearing the same clothes, anyway; I guess that doesn't mean much), a classic early MS photo (NOT a hoax, despite the domain name), and Billy G's mugshot.

    1. Re:More photos here by fraudrogic · · Score: 1

      One of those print/frame shops in the mall had a poster of a montage of celebrity mug shots and Bill G was one of them. Do you know what he was arrested for? The chiba? Indecent Exposure (Now that we know he was an aspiring bikini model)?

      --
      I only mod up parents of "mod parent up" posts...
    2. Re:More photos here by holysin · · Score: 1

      I *THINK* it was for speeding (or DUI, considering the date, I'd lean towards speeding)

    3. Re:More photos here by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Interesting

      On April 29th, 1975, at the age of 19, Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) was arrested by the Albuquerque Police department (arrest record #52090). The charges were speeding and driving without a license. It was the first of three arrests in the late seventies by Albuquerque Police.

      I got it from the google cache here., since the original page is gone.

      --
      I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
    4. Re:More photos here by chrish · · Score: 3, Funny
      It was the first of three arrests in the late seventies by Albuquerque Police.


      They sound about as effective as Springfield's police force.

      Or is that three arrests for Bill Gates?
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      - chrish
    5. Re:More photos here by adeydas · · Score: 1

      I have the photos at my blog too.

    6. Re:More photos here by FinalCut · · Score: 1

      thats hilarious. If i had mod points I'd definatly gives this a +1.

  193. Teen Beat?? by JFMulder · · Score: 1

    I hope they don't mean "fap fap fap fap fap fap fap"....

  194. Teen Beat? by vurg · · Score: 1

    What the hell is Teen Beat magazine anyway?

  195. This is a test of ... system. by Antonymous+Flower · · Score: 1

    This is a test of the Epic 2014 newscasting system. Beware to those who prefer gossip (such as this story) over real news. When your news is personalized it will be as narrow, shallow, and sensationalized as you are.

    "At its best, edited for the savviest readers, EPIC is a summary of the world - deeper, broader and more nuanced than anything ever available before. At its worst, and for too many, epic is merely a collection of trivia, much of it untrue, all of it narrow, shallow and sensational. but epic is what we wanted. epic is what we chose..."

    See: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

    As a side note: The transcript linked from robinsloan.com is posted on a news site with terrible formatting (possibly due to the excessive amount of ads) and is incomplete. It omits some of the more insightful points of the flash movie. Just a further display of the motives and/or intentions of advertising driven news outlets and the need to be critical of your news sources.

  196. Sing it with me people!!! by eno2001 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm too sexy for a haircut
    Too sexy for a haircut
    So sexy it hurts! Yow!! ;p

    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) :) Just kidding. As I've said before, I kid because I love.

    --
    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  197. Workin' it with the floppy disk toss... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    OMG, Bill has now done it all. Knowing how women are seeing a billionaire like Gates is more of a turn on than a male model for them.

    I guess Bill still has to catch-up to Bezos and start his own space program.

  198. Bill Skywalker by pentagono · · Score: 1

    And to think this was the man who defeated the evil empire of IBM -- way back when IBM was the evil empire!

    all that happyness and good will in his expression... he maybe felt like Luke Skywalker against the evil Empire ?

  199. Is it just me? by nsayer · · Score: 1

    Or does he resemble Mark Hamil in those photos?

  200. THIS IS WHAT I SEE! by earthstar · · Score: 1
    When i click on the link in the article this is the message i get!

    Sorry, no nude pictures of Bill Gates here... We still love you, /. :)

  201. A very nice picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I am reminded of some dialog in a Maigret episode

    Paper Seller: There's a very nice photo of you in the paper today Inspector.

    Maigret: That was taken twenty years ago!

    Paper Seller: That's what makes it very nice.

  202. slashdot behind by marcusss · · Score: 1

    Seriously you guys are behind recently with your news. These pics have been circulating for at least a month now. Play catch up guys

  203. Bill's Mac by WebCowboy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ask yourself how Bill could get a Mac in 1983

    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 arena and it's flagship application was MS Multiplan (precursor to Excel and initially a distant also-ran to Lotus 123 and VisiCALC). Apple also needed some software ready for when the Mac came out and was too busy on the system to develop a lot of useful applications so it needed 3rd party assistance from MS and others.

    Given MS and Apple wanted to at least try to have BASIC and Mutiplan ready for the MACs release, MS had to have prototype specimens before it was released--and in fact it did receive its first Apple Mac in late 1982. So, yes Bill could did get Macs by 1983.

    BTW, the first MS products for the Mac weren't unlike any other MS product--they sucked but were somewhat useable nonetheless (Jobs complained that MS "didn't get it" in regards to GUI design, and "had no taste" and on both points it could be said that Multiplan supports his observations). MS became by far the larget 3rd party software vendor of Macintosh progams largely the way it came to dominate in BASIC on early micros--first mover advantage.

    1. Re:Bill's Mac by danila · · Score: 1

      But I don't think a prototype Mac would be in a room used for relaxed publicity photos.

      --
      Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
  204. Re:OCD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Still not clean, still not clean, still not clean"

    Have you had yourself checked for Obsesive Compulsive Disorder?

  205. Re:Gates cheap shot on Slashdot? No way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When was the last time you saw a story bashing Bill Gates? Really? Everything I've seen bashes Microsoft.

  206. And this the guy who is beating Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    And this is the guy who is beating Microsoft.

    I can't imagine the guy who will beat Linux when Total World Domination(tm) is completed.

  207. Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I think you missed the joke. Gates owns Corbis.

  208. HERE by Dasein · · Score: 1

    This works for me.

    --
    You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake -- but you could be if you got off your ass.
  209. Re:THIS IS WHAT I SEE! by LudicrousSpeed · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Looks like they couldn't handle the bandwidth.

  210. I couldnt resist making this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  211. "we recently found"? by hymie3 · · Score: 1

    As in, it was blogged to heck and back over the weekend and *still* you chose not to reference *any* of the *many* sites that posted it prior to /. "found"?

    I *should* be able to spend mod points on articles themselves... but I haven't received any mod points since posting negative things about /. Go figure.

  212. My eyes!!!! by natet · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did not want to see Bill Gates throwing his floppy around....

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    IANAL... But I play one on /.
  213. I prefer this picture of him by HogynCymraeg · · Score: 1
  214. we have always been at war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    with MS. Update your damned history already.

  215. I dunno... by danila · · Score: 1

    Why everyone is so negative? Personally I think these are rather nice photos.

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    Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
  216. strawman, begging the question by Cryofan · · Score: 1

    I said nothing about who you should adore, and you know damn well people do not read about the top of the hierarchy in order to get good ideas from them. If you want good ideas from Gates, try being born into a rich and well connected family, like he did.

    The fact is that you geeks, just all the rest of the human race, idolize the top of hierarchy. And me, being the bombthrower I am, just love to point it out, especially because many of you like to think you are ultrationalists....

    --
    eat shiat and bark at the moon
  217. TSG Gates Mugshot by jrose187 · · Score: 1

    Here's another nice shot of Uncle Bill: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/gatesmug1.ht ml

  218. You know what they say about skinny white guys by Excen · · Score: 0

    They're hung like Tiajuana Mules!

    --
    "No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
  219. Dear God by saundo · · Score: 1

    There isn't enough bleach nor enough wire brushes to get the dirt off. Why won't it come off? Damn you NeoWin! Damn you all to hell!

    --
    -- The problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.
  220. Anyone notice the resemblance to... by PFritz21 · · Score: 1
    James Spader? They do look kinda of similar. As a member of the Brat Pack (or so I've been told), Spader became an instant star, even if he did play the jerk in most of those movies. Gates is about 5 years older than Spader, but even so, those suave kinds of guys were considered hot back then (same goes for Emilio Estevez).

    One more thing: power and money were big in the 80's. Very big. Yuppies were the shiz-nit.

  221. Nice Ass Bill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You were such a hot tramp back in the day. It's a pity what the years do to all of us.

    yours,

    S. Jobs

  222. FAKE by crayz · · Score: 1

    How is there a Mac in a 1983 photo spread?

    1. Re:FAKE by antispam_ben · · Score: 1

      How is there a Mac in a 1983 photo spread?

      I can't see the pics, but...

      Microsoft was one of the earliest third-party developers for the Mac, which was introduced in January 1984, so it's possible that Microsoft had a prototype machine in 1983.
      OTOH, Apple would have raised holy hell had any pics been published before the Mac was released, and since I was following most-all things Apple back then, I would have heard about it, so I don't think it (publishing an Apple Macintosh pic in 1983) happened.

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      Tag lost or not installed.
    2. Re:FAKE by ninjagin · · Score: 1
      A couple of posts have pointed out that the photos are from 1985. Whether '85 or '83, a prototype/pre-sales mac would not have been out of the question for a legitimate developer of software for the Mac, like Microsoft.

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  223. Pie Gate by musicscene · · Score: 1

    Still my favorite:

    Pie Gate

    Can't get enough of that. ;)

    --
    "I'm not ashamed I can't function in society like I'm supposed to." - Paul Westerberg
    1. Re:Pie Gate by shadowsurfr1 · · Score: 1

      Nice.

  224. Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis by geomon · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the joke. Gates owns Corbis.

    Cluebat at the ready; set to stun!

    --
    "Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
  225. MY EYES! by Viking+Coder · · Score: 1

    AAaaaag! My precious eyes! Aaaah!

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  226. Windows 1.0 by KiloByte · · Score: 1

    I still do have my set of Windows 1.0 disks. Of course, they have nails driven through them, but anyway...

    --
    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  227. Hundreds of girls swooning over this picture by Council · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnotheydidnt /946946.html Link to the livejournal post where I saw this yesterday.

    In those comment threads hundreds of girls are absolutely SWOONING. I really don't understand that gender. But it's a hopeful sign. Wonder if I have a sweater like that in my closet somewhere.

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    xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
  228. Billy Jean by gandhiano · · Score: 1

    Billy Jean is not my lover He's just a boy who claims that I am the one This are not pictures from the magazine. They are personal photos that he took to give to his lover. Someone said that the photographer asked him to make love to the camera. But... the photographer is his lover!

  229. Must be done! by dghcasp · · Score: 1
    Somebody HAS to rent a billboard near the Microsoft campus and put these pictures up there!

    News Reporter Voice: This is Joe Shmoe near the Microsoft campus. I have never seen horror like this - a 28,432 car pileup. It appears all the drivers crashed after vomiting on their own windshields.

  230. men might be better at math and science... by katenysh · · Score: 0

    But in their world billy boy is not made fun of EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Think for yourself, question authority
  231. Bad link by Blitzenn · · Score: 1

    The link takes me to a site that says, no nude pictures of Bill Gates here. Pretty lame post if you ask me.

  232. I hate to admit it but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bill Gates was my very first crush, sorry Stevo!

  233. Two words by NeuroMorphus · · Score: 1

    There are two words to describe how I feel after seeing those pics:

    "Micro" and "Soft"

    ~= Chris =~

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  234. Oh My.......... by binder520 · · Score: 1
    Does anyone see the mac behind in the background?

    Lets talk about Macs as a Home Theater PC

  235. With all that money by Abhorsen · · Score: 1

    He could lore me to his bed. After all he wont be wining any one over on his looks.

  236. SFW? by adagioforstrings · · Score: 1

    Is this NSFW? I get the impression from other comments that it may not be. ;-)

  237. Re:I am BillGatus of Borg. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That wasn't even a first post.

  238. Life saving by flibuste · · Score: 1

    Again a critical life-saving article from Slashdot which undoubtedly will provide yet again vital information to the unwashed masses.

    Good job slashdot in publishing the most stupid, useless, ridiculous post of 2005. And it's just a beginning.

    Seriously, is this really *needed*?. You do not like Bill or M$ - fine. Any news?

  239. yikes by sirinek · · Score: 1

    You mean that's NOT photoshopped?!

    Ugh. The nightmares.

  240. Re:OCD by ilikecaffeine · · Score: 2, Funny
    Have you had yourself checked for Obsesive Compulsive Disorder?

    12 times a day, every day.

  241. And in other news /. sinks to new lows! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Okay its "news" from 1983. It's got very little to do with anything, and is an outright Bill Gates bash. This place has hit bedrock and started digging.

  242. The Mug Shot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Bill certainly was a Raskal:

    http://www.mugshots.com/Historical/Bill+Gates.ht m

  243. Teen Beat? by Monkey+Angst · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My question is this: In 1983 (or 84, judging by the Mac) Bill Gates and Microsoft were on the rise, but in the computer industry. Outside the computer industry (oh, yeah, and Wall Street), people wouldn't have known who he was. So what was Teen Beat's interest? Not a movie star. Not on TV. Not, for several years yet, the richest guy on the block. So what's the story?

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  244. Some More Tasty pics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And if that don't do it for ya checkout the Bush predecessor (hitler in his shorts, scroll to middle)

    http://www.negcap.com/NC1/embarrassing.html

    Or go directly to our favorite hero of all time
    http://bush.nofate.com/bush/

  245. An alternative site by scottjpearson · · Score: 1
  246. It was part of an advertising campaign by generalphilips · · Score: 1
    This is your computer.
    This is your computer on drugs.
    Any questions?
  247. To quote Conan O'Brien by webteeth · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't let the term "Micro soft" fool you.

  248. Even younger...and umm....more naughty by mislinux · · Score: 1
  249. Oh boy... by eekrano · · Score: 1

    So it all started with the blue screen.... and 20+ years later, everyone still sees a lovely blue screen

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  250. Kinda like pulling out a bag of many holding by pickled+doughboy · · Score: 1

    I hate when that happens...

  251. The Mac is the spoiler by WebCowboy · · Score: 1

    You're right, I don't think MS would be that careless with a prototype product. Furthermore, other posters have noticed upon further examination that these are NOT pics from a 1983 "Teen Beat" magazine--the article posted to /. is false (although the pictures are hilarious).

    The pictures appear to be taken in 1985, most likely as part of an article in some computer magazine covering the release of Windows 1.0 on the unsuspecting public. Given the "I'm too sexy for my C-prompt" atmosphere, perhaps they weren't even formally published and were merely candid shots among many to chose from (like the photographer trying an experiment that failed miserably).

  252. Most Disturbing Words This Year So Far by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 1
    "Photo Spread Mr. Gates Did in 1983"

    (Oh, no, my eyes, it burns, it burns)

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  253. 53xy B0y! by renata.org · · Score: 1

    Oh, so hot that my processor overheated. No, wait, it was just a problem in my cooler.

  254. Anyone save the pics/have a mirror? by antispam_ben · · Score: 1

    When i click on the link in the article this is the message i get!

    Sorry, no nude pictures of Bill Gates here... We still love you, /. :)


    [I get that too]

    Not that I'm like, dying to see picture of Bill Gates in Teen Beat or anything...

    OTOH, I could use a new pic for the dartboard.

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  255. Quick! by ashot · · Score: 1

    someone put this up on HotorNot.

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  256. Mmm. by millennial · · Score: 1

    Oh, Bill. You coy little he-devil. Program me into your arms.
    /projectile vomit

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  257. AIEEEEEE! MY EYES!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I can't see! Oh, wait, maybe that's good in this case!

  258. +5 funny by SteveXE · · Score: 1

    I dont even need to come up with a funny comment, those pictures are enough on their own...oh sexy Mr Gates, how those 80's teen age girls adored you!

  259. Obligatory Bill Gates Joke by CyborgWarrior · · Score: 0

    What did Mrs. Gates say to Bill on their wedding night?? Ohhhh..... so THAT's why you called it Microsoft...

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  260. Anyone noticed that all the PCs are bluescreening? by Werrismys · · Score: 1

    Jesus christ. Those images are like... I'll be making an install image for a new batch of HP machines soon, at least now I know what the background image will be. My eyes.

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  261. Drag me, Drop me, Treat me like an object by geekboy36 · · Score: 1

    My eyes, my eyes, for the love of God, my eyes!

  262. From now on by Per+Wigren · · Score: 2, Funny

    he will be known as Bill Gaytes. ;)

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  263. Photos are by Deborah Feingold by westendgirl · · Score: 1

    According to Museum of Hoaxes, the photos were taken by Deborah Feingold in 1985 -- for the launch of Windows 1.0.

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  264. Here's the story... by Kevin108 · · Score: 0
    Sometimes you've gotta suffer a little in your youth to motivate you to succeed later in life. You think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft? Of course not! You've got to spend a long time stuffed in your own locker with your underwear wedged up your ass before you start thinking: "I'm gonna take over the world of computers, you'll see! I'll show them!"

    - Lazyboy, "Underwear Inside The Pants"

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    A perfect time to watch the stars.
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  265. Way to go man... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As soon as I opened that image link, Firefox started acting up, my Linux box started convulsing, and the LEGO robot in the corner started screaming " Danger Will Robinson, Danger."

    This is strange as the robot only ever says "Spank it big daddy, spank it"

  266. He looks so.... sleepy by Fricka · · Score: 1

    In the first pic the impression I got was that he was about to go to sleep.

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  267. Mac the knife.. by adeyadey · · Score: 1

    Just behind your back, jack..

    or..

    "Ready?? POSE!!" - Teen Girl Squad

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  268. Nothing unusual about that... by geekwench · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Most "heartthrobs" are, in fact, older than the demographic of the teen magazine that they're displayed in. Johnny Depp? Or, more recently, Orlando Bloom? Same deal.

    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.

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    1. Re:Nothing unusual about that... by 808140 · · Score: 1

      You know, I'm glad you said that. All these posts about how they need to cut their eyes out and such, and I'm thinking, "He actually didn't look half bad, back then."

      Like you said, look at him now. Time is kind to no one, apparently. Except maybe Sean Connery and Sofia Loren.

      Post anonymously? Nah, what the hell.

  269. Two words: Micro. Soft. by GrahamCox · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nuff said.

  270. Microsoft was purely Billy's creative talent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There's an Apple in the background. Top picture, over his right shoulder. 'Nuff said.

  271. Re:Not TEEN BEAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It IS Bill, but, as noticed previously, it was in 1985 NOT in 1983 and NOT in Teen Beat http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments /2272/

  272. the camerman? by Mr.Bananas · · Score: 1

    I can just hear the camera the camera man saying "Oooh! That sucha sexy pose! Oh, that's feisty! Throw me another floppy disk!"

  273. Most juvenile Slashdot article ever by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And most juvenile comments ever. As if you guys are all number 10s on the scale.

    That is all.

    1. Re:Most juvenile Slashdot article ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      And most juvenile comments ever. As if you guys are all number 10s on the scale.

      No one said he was ugly, just that he was vain. You can keep that picture of sexy Bill with his tight pants and big 5.5 inch floppy under your pillow and no one will bother you about it. Well, OK, he's ugly too. Does the truth hurt your feelings? It might, considering how much you love Microsoft.

      Let's go back in time and look at some of the M$ love fest, apologizing and Slashdot insulting from Bonch:

      1. Blames the user for MyDoom, which distributed itself through Kazaa.
      2. Begging for free software goodies to be ported to M$'s junk.
      3. "Slashdot discussion--the Internet king of groupthink and propaganda." More insults, you wonder why he reads Slashdot other than to cause trouble.
      4. Here he is bitching over being blacklisted for his behavior. Of course, he was on the infamous troll post.
      5. "Slashdot is a bunch of kooks complaining about stuff." His way of excusing the use of M$ garbage in voting machines that were both impossible to verify and easy to manipulate.

      All of the above was found by looking at two pages of google results for bonch slashdot. More than half of the results were like those.

      Well, that's enough fun for me for now. Thanks for playing, Bonch. I hope your account is deleted soon. Until then, I think I'll save this post and put it wherever you show up.

  274. Mods: The truth about bonch/rd_syringe/OverlyCrGuy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Moderators: Please note that "bonch" is a known fanatical psycophant whose obnoxious offtopic rants are legend here on Slashdot. It doesn't matter what the topic is, he'll find a way to scrape in some pointless Microsoft shilling. While nobody expects us to love Microsoft in any way, his particularly tepid style of calling anyone he replies to "troll" or "liar" because he happens to disagree with whatever they're saying is well documented and should not be rewarded. If anything, bonch is the type of person that should not be part of the open source/free software community. He is an anathema to all that is good about free software.

    I'm posting this so that you (the moderator) have some context to consider bonch and not mod him up whenever he posts his filler preformatted rants about installing Windows or whatever that unfortunately get him karma every single time and allow him to continue posting his trademark toxic crap (read on) day in and day out. You may consider this a troll - I consider it community service. And I ain't kidding.

    If you're a /. subscriber, I invite you to look through some of his posting history. I guarantee that you'll be hard pressed to find someone that is more "out there" than bonch. You'll also probably notice he's got quite an AC following. Don't just read his posts, make sure you go through the replies.

    For example, in this recent post bonch not only calls the OP a troll but attempts to "tell it like it is" while making some vague argument about "MS". Yes, if you're confused, you're not alone. The reply (modded +0) proceeds to simply destroy his bogus argument. You will notice he did not reply. This is what some people call "drive-by advocacy". A sort of I'll just leave you with my thoughts here and move on to the next flamebait kind of deal. In fact, he almost never replies because he knows that his fanatical arguments simply do not hold up to any sort of discussion. It's not that he's chosen the wrong cause - he's just going at it in a completely wrong way.

    More? Just read though this post and the subsequent replies. I guess this stands on its own.

    More? Bad spelling in astounding conspiracy theories, more offtopic FUD and uninformed "I'm right, look at me" rants, promptly proven wrong. Worse even, bonch wants to be Bill Gates, apparently (that first one is a winner). I mean, really. You think?

    FUD, FUD, FUD, FUD, offtopic FUD, and more FUD. This guy is like the Monty Python SPAM skit, but with FUD and more FUD instead of canned meat. Amazed yet? Don't forget that KDE and Gnome make you dumb, and it's all a Slashdot conspiracy. How low do you want to go? Maybe as low as this?

    The infamous Slashdot Front Page Troll? Nuclear fireballs? It goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on (troll?). Like the energizer bunny. Or take these two, which stretch the definition of weird.

    It's up to you. We can get rid of this guy and make Slashdot a better place. I don't know about you, but I'd rather take the trolls and crapflooders over people like "bonch" any day. And I sure as hell don't want to be categorized along with him. This is not how you advocate free software, period.

  275. Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is so freakin wrong....

  276. nice pants by konmaskisin · · Score: 1

    Profit scheme:

    - wear blue pants
    - collect strange software interpreter
    - ????
    - Billionaire!!

  277. Re: Microsoft Word 1.0 was on a Mac by johnrpenner · · Score: 1


    Microsoft Word 1.0 was on a Mac,
    because Windows didn't exist then yet.

    regards,
    j

  278. This is ONE TIME... by The+Fink · · Score: 1
    where I hope your sig is wrong.

    I do NOT want a CmdrTaco dupe to this story in particular.

  279. Slashdot wrong and Snopes.com right, again by Council · · Score: 1

    He was NOT in Teen Beat. This story is wrong, the second time in about as many days that Snopes has scooped Slashdot.

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  280. Nice Try, Slashdot. But you're wrong... by wickersty · · Score: 1

    http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments /2272/

  281. Headline not true, mod me up please. by Audigy · · Score: 1

    Snopes.com debunks this story. The photos are real, but they are NOT from Teen Beat magazine.

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  282. Re:Look at the Mac in the background...can't be 19 by Nick+of+NSTime · · Score: 1

    Not likely. Apple was very secretive about the development of the Macintosh. The first public glimpse of the Mac was in the Super Bowl commercial.

  283. I got the Bill allright by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    You always "get a bill" if you buy Microsoft, and a big, fat one at that.

    That's the one thing you're sure of when you go the Microsoft way: you will be billed!

    Sorry for the stupid joke, but i couldn't resist.

  284. hoax by I8TheWorm · · Score: 1

    So nobody clued in that this was a hoax?

    The pictures were actually from a publicity shoot in 1985 for the initial release of Windows.

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  285. we have proof by calyptos · · Score: 1

    you can see him trying to copy the mac desktop with the back 2 computers.

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  286. Gates on Macs - video by lixlpixel · · Score: 1
  287. New guy's puking his guts out in the corner by b00m3rang · · Score: 1

    all because you wanted to save a few cents on brake pads.

  288. How Banks Make Money out of Thin Air by SwedishChef · · Score: 1

    banks make money out of thin air? How does that work? Or are you just stupid?

    Ok... you're an AC so you'll never read this, but I thought I'd tell you anyway. Banks "create" money under rigid rules that limit how much they can create (M2). It works like this:

    You go to your bank and request a loan for a used (but nice) car. When it's approved you get a check which you deposit into your account. You write a check to the owner for the car and he deposits it in his bank. No money existed for this entire series of transactions. It was "created" by the bank not printed by the Treasury.

    The only "real" money (M1) from this deal would be if the seller of the used car cashed that check and received the proceeds in currency. But it's more likely that he(she) would have written a check to pay off the remaining balance on the car and then written another check to buy another car.

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