Bill Gates Timeline

By bonanoka

  • Bill Gates was born

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    Bill Gates Life

  • School

    At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy computers.

  • He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer

    He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer

  • Congressional Page

    In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the US House of Representatives.

  • Graduation

    Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SATand enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973.

  • Aressted #2

    He was arrested in 1975 for speeding in his Porsche without a license and again in 1989 for suspicion of drunk driving.

  • First Computer Job

    Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Paul Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975.

  • Microsoft was Born

    They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.

  • Aressted #1

    In 1977, at the age of 22, Bill Gates was in Albuquerque, New Mexico when he reportedly ran a stop sign. He was arrested.

  • Magement Style

    In 1981 an industry executive complained in public that "Gates is notorious for not being reachable by phone and for not returning phone calls."

  • Windows is Born

    Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2.

  • Marriage

    Gates married Melinda French on January 1, 1994.

  • First Daughter Born

    Jennifer Katharine

  • First Son Born

    Rory John

  • Second Daughter Born

    Phoebe Adele

  • Leaving the Job

    On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate more time to philanthropy.