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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.
Somebody's been /.-ed
I, for one, welcome our homoerotic, pie-eyed, playful floppy-disk tossing Overlord.
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Nothing to see here.
Bill G.
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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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.
This takes geek sheik to a whole new low
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, I did not vote for George W Bush, and I do not endorse what he does or says.
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Haha, those are the photos _after_ they got done with makeup and post-shoot editing. Bahahaa.
-Jesse
Nothing says "unprofessional job" like wrinkles in your duct tape.
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.
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Please don't hold back. It's so unusual to see Gates bashing on Slashdot. I think I'd enjoy the change of pace.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
or did he look like some sort of serial killer/mad man to everyone else? Especially in that second photograph... ::shudders::
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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".
SASSY!
Here's the mirrordot location (shows the pictures).
What happens if Slashdot puts a link to mirrordot? Will mirrordot mirror itself?
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Jesus Christ! not so floppy!
Try here.
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- Douglas Adams
here
...ever BSoD in the background?
Also, look at his eyes, Bill Gates should definately lay off the pipe. Crack kills!
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On the left machine in the back he was coding windows1.0
:-)
The right machine was his inspiration
The Macintosh came out in 1984, and Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Both of these are in the photos.
THEY DO NOTHING!
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?
This link talks about Microsoft being a 3rd party developer for Apple in 1983.
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.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
I so wished I *DIDN'T* RTFA. :(
I need to go home and shower now.
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a replacement for goatse! :P
AFAIK Microsoft had access to Macs before the introduction.
Is he dressed as an arab in other pictures?
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.
:P
Anthony Michael Hall looked way better in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" than the genuine article looked IRL!
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
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.
Hey everyone... I've mirrored just the images here, if anyone would like them:
billg-teenbeat1.jpg
billg-teenbeat2.jpg
Enjoy!
Excuse the blood, I had to dig my eyes out in a hurry.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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.
"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.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
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.
Does anyone else find it amusing that he's posing in front of a blue screen?
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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....
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!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Bill Gates is the founder of Corbis...along with having investments in a lot of other companies.
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
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!
Please, please bring back goatse instead.
Seriously, that's just disgusting.
Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
"I was young and I needed the money."
Then, my friend, the internet will hang up, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the universe...
... as we know it.
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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
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Evidently I have no sense of humor :/
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.
I'm too sexy for a haircut ;p
:) Just kidding. As I've said before, I kid because I love.
Too sexy for a haircut
So sexy it hurts! Yow!!
Actually, to be completely fair, he doesn't exactly look thrilled to be posing for the pictures. Imagine if Torvalds were cornered to do this. Or... in some frightening parallel universe where geeks are considered the ultimate sex objects: Stallman. (Brrr... I shudder at the thought)
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
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.
I did not want to see Bill Gates throwing his floppy around....
IANAL... But I play one on
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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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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he will be known as Bill Gaytes. ;)
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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.
Doing my level best to piss off the religious right wing...
Nuff said.