One of the greatest fortunes in the history of the world started in 1981 when Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, made a deal to license MS-DOS to IBM (or how Steve Jobs used to call the company “Big Brother”), while retaining ownership of the software. To stamp the moment in history, they both took a picture surrounded by computer systems popular at that time; and now 32 years later, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, once again got together to recreate the iconic photograph.
So much fun catching up w/ computing pioneers at the
#LCMCelebration
last night! Here I am with old friend
@BillGates
pic.twitter.com/a5aQaamH9H
— Paul Allen (@PaulGAllen)
April 4, 2013
The picture was taken at Seattle’s Living Computer Museum founded by Mr. Allen with all the same computers.
Image via
Paul Allen
| via
Gizmodo