• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I definitely remember that in the news as a teenager…and then I remember everybody kinda shrugged their shoulders and forgot. And now Bill Gates = zoomer jesus after 20 years of PR work to turn his image around.

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      1 year ago

      Somehow, everybody forgot all the dumpster-diving Gates did to “build” Microsoft in the first place.

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        1 year ago

        Crazy to think that Commodore’s BASIC was coded by Bill Gates, though. I was recently reading a programming article he wrote in Compute! magazine back in 1984, when MS ascendance was anything but guaranteed.