Bill Gates and Microsoft Bill wrote his first program when he was 13 years old. He and his friends figured out how to pay hundreds of games using the programming language called BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). Since then he has been labeled “the computer guy”. Since Bill was a teenager he has believed that every home could have a computer and that became Microsoft’s corporate mission. Bill doesn’t like the metaphor “information superhighway” due to its implied landscape, geography, and distance. What this new communications technology was trying to do was eliminate this very distance. At the time of writing this book, he made a bold prediction, comparing the Internet to a market. Gates had anticipated many things that have already begun to happen. He felt that people would be trading, buying, selling, investing, meeting people, and hanging ....

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