Term Papers on How Bill Gates Changed The World

Term Paper Title	How Bill Gates Changed The World
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How Bill Gates Changed The World

         Bill Gates, the single richest man alive. Yet he his days that started as a hacker where not always glorious, the way that he rode up to the top doing what he does best (hacking) make him a very interesting person to learn about. Today Bill Gates gives generously to the population and is nothing short of a great man.

         He used a lot of Homo Faber in his work, as he and his best friend (Paul Allen, Co-Founder of Microsoft) created many programs during there free time and created a BASIC program for one of the first P.C.’s, which helped Bill Gates start Microsoft in 1976.

         Also more apparent today is Health and Social. Microsoft is the biggest program writing company there is, there products include the famous “Windows” Operating Systems, and MSN Messenger. Through those systems, people from all over the world interact and “chat” together. But the use of Microsoft programs is not limited to home use, as many businesses use the systems for professional uses.

How It Started

         Bill Gates Was born in 1965 to a family with a rich background. In elementary school, he was exceptional in all subjects, but was extremely good in Mathematics and sciences. His parents saw his gift and enrolled him in Lakeside Private School.  It is there that he fist made contact with computers.

         Bill Gates immediately began an addiction to the computer. Within a few weeks his knowledge of computing excelled that of his Computer teacher. He and a couple of his classmates stayed on the computer for long periods of time, often extending into the night, writing diverse programs. They would also skip classes and stop doing there homework just to be on the machine. The school had to buy computer time in order for students to go on it. But since Bill and his friends strayed a lot of time on the machine, at the end of just a couple of weeks, they had used up all the time on it. They used up several thousand dollars that was meant for the entire year.

         Having used up all of the time, a new company “Computer Center Corporation” opened in Seattle and one of the programmers who worked had a kid who attended Lakeside. So the company gave them computer time at good rates. But Bill and his friends started to cause the computer to crash, break through the CCC’s security system and alter the amount of Computer time has been spent. It wasn’t long before they where caught and banned from the computer for a month.

         The CCC started to suffer because of the amount of times there computers crashed and because of there weak security. Since they where impressed by Bill Gates and his friends’ performance at computers they hired him, Paul Allen and two other fellow hackers from school to find bugs and weaknesses in the Company’s systems. But they did not limit themselves to that. They would read any computer related material they could find that the crew had overseen to get ride of, and they would also hassle employees for more info. It is there that Bill and Paul got the experience they needed to start up Microsoft years later.

         Lakeside gave Bill the project to computerize the scheduling of the school. It is rumoured that Bill used this program to his own benefit and placed himself in the classes with the most beautiful girls in the school.

         When Computer Center Cooperation went bankrupt in 1970, the four friends...

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