14 Things You Didn’t Know About Bill Gates

Endo · Post by **Endo** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:56 am

Seeing how he (surely?) is the most talked about man in the world....You might know some of these; but thats not the point! <_<

14 Things You Didn’t (Or may) Know About Bill Gates

1. Many books have been written about Bill Gates, Amazon brings up 137,632 results.

2. The first company he founded was Traf-O-Data.

3. Microsoft used to be written \"Micro-Soft\".

4. His great-grandfather was a lawmaker and mayor, his grandfather a national bank\'s vice president, and his father a successful lawyer.

5. In 1968 when the first computers were installed in the Lakeside Academy, his grades degraded because he would spend days and nights learning the new device.

6. Gates, Paul Allen and their friends caused the computers in Lakeside Academy to crash because of hacking activity.

7. When he was young he used to rock back and fourth. Today he still does it when he\'s deep in thought.

8. In Harvard he got bored and passed most of his time programming and playing poker.

9. Gates told his teachers in university he would be a millionaire by age 30.

10. Gates turned into a billionaire at age 31.

11. One of his teachers once said \"Bill was an amazing programmer, but a disgusting person\".

12. The reckless life in Harvard made him sick during summer 1974 and he quit his studies.

13. His first programming job was in high school making a program that organizes an efficient schedule. He used it to sign up to classes that had the hottest girls and have easy fridays.

14. Gates married his wife, Melinda, on January 1994 in an island in Hawaii which he rented for the wedding.

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Post by **Jim** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:13 pm

Nope, don\'t think I knew any of those things about him O_O

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:17 pm

same ;o lol.

Vercz · Post by **Vercz** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:44 am

[color=\"green\"][quote name=\'Endophyte\']7. When he was young he used to rock back and fourth. Today he still does it when he\'s deep in thought.[/quote]

....looks like im in for a good future

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Endo · Post by **Endo** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:01 am

I actually read its been under much debate on whether Bill has a mild form of autism and/or Asperger\'s syndrome as he shows many traits of these; the rocking back and fourth being one of them

Post by **Tibs** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:58 am

[quote name=\'Endophyte\' post=\'30064\' date=\'Nov 8 2005, 09:56 PM\']9. Gates told his teachers in university he would be a millionaire by age 30.[/quote]

I always say that too

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radar · Post by **radar** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:01 pm

[quote name=\'Endophyte\' post=\'30093\' date=\'Nov 10 2005, 06:31 PM\']I actually read its been under much debate on whether Bill has a mild form of autism and/or Asperger's syndrome as he shows many traits of these; the rocking back and fourth being one of them[/quote]

someone told me that I might have aspergers once too. Here money money money.