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Bill Gates

By trevorkling
  • Bill Gates is born

    Bill Gates is born

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    Lifetime and Achievements

  • Bill is enrolled at Lakeside

    Lakeside school is a private school for very intelligent kids with excellent grades. This is a very prestigious school and is very good for a resume. He enrolled in seventh grade.
  • Bill writes his first program.

    Bill writes his first program.

    Bill Gates makes a tic tac toe game on an old computer. This was a major first step towards programming computers to do things forever.
  • Bill enters Harvard

    Bill enters Harvard

    This is a very prestigous Ivy League college that only the top students could attend.
  • Microsoft Begins

    Microsoft Begins

    Bill Gates and partner Paul Allen trademark Microsoft as an official business. This made computers and software for them.
  • Bill drops out of Harvard University

    Bill drops out of Harvard University

    Partner Paul Allen gave him an issue of "Popular Electronics" magazine and Bill saw a computer called the "Altair 8800", and he was hooked. "This was a very big decision, but I had to do it." said Bill Gates.
  • Bill becomes yougest billionare ever

    Bill becomes yougest billionare ever

  • Bill Gates marries Melinda French

    Bill Gates marries Melinda French

  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Established

    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Established

    This is the charity that Bill and his wife founded to help underpriveleged children, fight disease, and give hungry people some food.

  • Bill is named richest man in the world

  • Bill Gates retires

  • Bill has donated more than $28 billion to charity

    Bill has donated more than $28 billion to charity

    This all went to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.