Bill+Gates+(Cassidy+Robinson)

===‍**1. Bill Gates was born October 28, 1955. Bill grew up like a regular child, he distiguished a talent that turned into a passion, hacking computers. At age 13 he wrote his first software program that played tic-tac-toe. Gates then became aquainted with Paul Allen which turned into a friendship with the sharing of interests in computer programing.** Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following year they saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 cpp and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. With the support of his parents, people were able to see how important this was to Gates. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. With the help of his friend Allen Gates was able to co find Microsoft the largest personal computer software company. He was ranked the wealthiest man in 1995-2009. Gates infulenced many people, today Microsoft is used all around the world.===
 * Bill Gates**

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 * 1967:** Gates is enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive private school in Seattle, where he befriends Paul Allen. The two students share an interest in computers and programming. The school notices his knack for technology and asks him to create a computerized schedule of classes


 * ‍1973:** Gates enters Harvard as a pre-law major, but soon shifts focus. He quickly runs through the university’s most rigorous mathematics and graduate level computer science courses

==‍Bill Gates was grabed by history because of his significant impact on technology. Microsoft is shared world wide, along with other ideas and differnt types of thecnology. Today in 2012 we surround ourselves with tons of technology. It just so happens to be that technology plays a bill role in our daily lives.==
 * 1975:** From his dorm room, Gates calls MITS, the maker of the world’s first personal computer. He offers to develop software for the MITS Altair. MITS eventually accepts and buys his language for $3,000 plus royalties. Gates takes his first leave of absence from school to start working on the software venture he refers to as Micro-Soft.
 * 1977:** Gates takes a second leave of absence from Harvard and sets up Microsoft in Albuquerque, N.M., where MITS is headquartered.
 * ‍1981:** Microsoft incorporates and buys the rights to the operating system “DOS” from Seattle Computer Products. The system is modified and renamed MS-DOS, and the company licenses it to IBM for the company’s new personal computer
 * 1983:** Allen leaves Microsoft after developing Hodgkin’s disease. Microsoft announces Windows as an extension of its MS-DOS operating system
 * 1987:** At age 31, Gates becomes the youngest billionaire ever. He meets his future wife, Melinda French, at a Microsoft event in New York.
 * 1995:** In July, at age 39 and with a fortune of $12.9 billion, Gates becomes the world’s richest man. Later that summer, Microsoft introduces Internet Explorer to the world, as part of Windows 95. //The Road Ahead//, Gates’ book about his vision for the digital future, holds the No. 1 spot on //The New York Times// best-seller list for seven weeks. Gates begins to shift Microsoft’s focus toward the emerging Internet
 * 2007:** Gates “graduates” from Harvard; the university awards him with an honorary degree. Gates gives the commencement speech encouraging the graduates to strive for social change. “Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries,” Gates says to the class, “but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.”
 * 2008:** Though his fortune continues to grow, Gates loses his spot as the richest man on the planet. After 13 years in the No. 1 spot on the Forbes’ list, Gates’ is surpassed by his friend Warren Buffet and Mexican telecom giant Carlos Slim Helu. Gates retires from day-to-day duties at Microsoft on June 27, but stays in the role of chairman and adviser on important development projects. He tells the //Seattle Post-Intelligencer// that he plans to pour the same amount of energy into his foundation that he did into Microsoft. He tells the newspaper, “I’m not a sit-on-the-beach type.”