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Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ok-i-just-gotta-do-it dept.

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.

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  1. 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

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    1. 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.

    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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.

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    6. 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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  2. Move Along Now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing to see here.

    Bill G.

  3. 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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  4. 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 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

    2. 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.

  5. 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.

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

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

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

    SASSY!

  8. 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 MR.Gates · · Score: 5, Funny

      ARGH. I think I'm blind now.

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  9. 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 sosume · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  10. 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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  11. 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 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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  12. THE GOGGLES! by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    THEY DO NOTHING!

  13. 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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  14. finally... by jxyama · · Score: 5, Funny

    a replacement for goatse! :P

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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.

  21. 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!

  22. Gates commenting the images to the press: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I was young and I needed the money."

  23. 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.

  24. My eyes!!!! by natet · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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