4 April 1975: date that changed modern computing

[Gargs]

What's so important about this day? It was a date that changed the the prior face of computing and business on it's head. Regardless of what one thinks about the company, one has to acknowledge the impact this partnership had on computing today.

Wired.com

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Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world's richest people.

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Microsoft stock went public in March 1986. Adjusting for splits, a share of that stock is worth almost 280 times its original value today (or more than 140 times, even accounting for inflation).

With faces like that, lucky for them they succeeded or else I think their parents would've just dropped them off in the woods to fend for themselves.

Link: April 4, 1975: Bill Gates, Paul Allen Form a Little Partnership

[DominiKing]

lmao

good job you rich bastards, the whole world is using your sh!t now with the monopoly you've created lol

[Craig]

so true...i think at the end of it all, Gates will be remembered as one of the greatest americans to ever live. should he really give all that money back, like he says he will (and has been), I see him going down with the likes of Jefferson, Franklin and Edison.

[VincentVega]

in some ways he's better than those guys.. since a lot of them had slaves and extra marrital affairs

[LaMercYellowDog]

At his death I think he should start sponsoring a new gaming lan call Bill-con... Where everyone wins... no matter how bad you suck.

just think of the gathering of Geeks, Nerds, and gaming freeks that would attend...

That much concentration of brain power in one place might even cause a rip in the time space continuum, thus making it possible for bill to cross back over from the other side...

[Fischig]

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Originally Posted by LaMercYellowDog

At his death I think he should start sponsoring a new gaming lan call Bill-con... Where everyone wins... no matter how bad you suck.

just think of the gathering of Geeks, Nerds, and gaming freeks that would attend...

That much concentration of brain power in one place might even cause a rip in the time space continuum, thus making it possible for bill to cross back over from the other side...

Lol