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Bill Gates
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Bill Gates was born
William Henry Gates III was born October, 28 1955 in Seattle, WA -
Getting caught
Bill Gates was caught hacking into a major corporation's computer and was forced to give up computing for a whole year -
Gates hacked high school computer
Bill Gates hacked into his high school computer so he was able to be in classes filled with all girls -
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Bill Gates and Paul Allen had been hacking computers since high school and large firms had paid them to do lucrative contract programming. -
Figuring out that they can make money
Gates and Allen discovered that they could be making money for the computer languages like BASIC for new computers -
Coding
Gates used 8080 instruction set -
Enrolled in college
Bill Gates enrolls in Harvard University -
Drops out of Harvard
Bill Gates had dropped out of Harvard because he was scared of missing out on the personal computing revolution -
Starts Microsoft
Bill and Paul start Microsoft -
Bill Gates starts Microsoft
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Microsoft and IBM
Microsoft signs a deal with IBM to combine Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers -
Bill Gates gets married
Bill Gates marries Melinda French, who is a Microsoft employee -
Bill and Melinda Gates
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World's richest man
At the age of 39, Bill Gates is named the richest man in the world -
Bill and Melinda Gates foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates started this foundation to help all people for a healthy and productive life. This foundation was built to improve people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. -
Honorary Degree
Bill Gates received an honorary law degree from Harvard University and named him the most illustrious member of the class of 1977 -
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Bill and Melinda Gates were rewarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. This award is the highest civilian award in America
