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.

Comments

What a Heartthrob!

[filmmaker]

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

Mirror of Gates Images

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[TedCheshireAcad]

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.

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[DenDave]

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...

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[rho]

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

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[Ohreally_factor]

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

If that was your first reaction: SEEK HELP!

=)

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[shokk]

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.

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[SenseiLeNoir]

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....

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[aztektum]

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

Re:What a Heartthrob!

[Chris Burke]

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

Move Along Now

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing to see here.

Bill G.

Ya know...

[hrieke]

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

At least come to the photoshoot sober!

[garcia]

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.

Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober!

[Xcott Craver]

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

Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober!

[AKnightCowboy]

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.

Images

[savagedome]

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.

Re:Images

[Tassach]

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

Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[slungsolow]

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".

Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[RobFlynn]

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.

Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[TrippTDF]

Photographer: Bill, Make love to the camera

Bill: Make WHAT?

Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[torpor]

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...)

Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[ptomblin]

And people wonder why my daughter is a lesbian.

Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[SoCalEd]

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

Re:Why in god's name was he in Teen Beat?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Summed Up in One Word ...

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

SASSY!

Mirror

[fireboy1919]

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

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

Re:Mirror

[koi88]

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

Then, my friend, the internet will hang up, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the universe.

Re:Mirror

[elecngnr]

Thanks for the mirror. That must have been the fastest /. effect I have seen.

Now, about the pictures. It looks like a spread for a geek porn mag. It almost looks like he is ready to dry-hump the monitor.

That might be the most stable MS GUI around he is fawning over.

Re:Mirror

[MR.Gates]

ARGH. I think I'm blind now.

Re:Mirror

[GreggBert]

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

look's like the giver's little bro!

[Anonymous Coward]

Jesus Christ! not so floppy!

Re:look's like the giver's little bro!

[sosume]

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

Re:look's like the giver's little bro!

[smokeslikeapoet]

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

Creepy

[Deanasc]

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!

Mac in the Back

[fons]

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

The right machine was his inspiration :-)

Re:Mac in the Back

[Refrag]

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

Re:Mac in the Back

[_Sprocket_]

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.

THE GOGGLES!

[zenmojodaddy]

THEY DO NOTHING!

Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's

[amichalo]

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.

Re:Best Bill Gates quote from the 1980's

[ILikeRed]

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

For once ...

[Frag-A-Muffin]

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

I need to go home and shower now.

finally...

[jxyama]

a replacement for goatse! :P

Re:OMFG

[madprof]

Is he dressed as an arab in other pictures?

Editor training

[Knights who say 'INT]

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.

I've been scarred for life!

[Chas]

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

Re:1983?

[Hank Scorpio]

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.

Actually... Bill was a billionaire by 1987

[SwedishChef]

"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.

Re:At least its Gates...

[TheRaven64]

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

Re:1983?

[Ohreally_factor]

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.

Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis

[count0]

Bill Gates is the founder of Corbis...along with having investments in a lot of other companies.

OMG...Wasted Brain cells

[C. Alan]

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!

Gates commenting the images to the press:

[Anonymous Coward]

"I was young and I needed the money."

More photos here

[JavaRob]

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.

Re:More photos here

[stratjakt]

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.

Re:More photos here

[chrish]

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?

My eyes!!!!

[natet]

I did not want to see Bill Gates throwing his floppy around....