Do you really want a OS made by this gang of hooligans?

[Gertrude]

http://www.baddgrrl.com/images/would~yo.jpg

[GhostDawg]

WOW ....let's see, 1978, I was a beach bum living in Los Angeles, Venice Beach area! I didn't know a thing about computers then. :D

[elite_syntax]

That funny.

[dalek]

1978??? I was 11.
To answer your question. NOPE. See sig below. very bottom.

:cool: :cool: :D :D

[serz]

Funny :D

They all were hippies :p

[bosox79]

I was'nt even born yet :D

[sarah31]

iwas a wee polar bear of eight then.

[Parcival]

Everytime I look at the guy in the lower left corner I get the feeling that he can't live a day without his mom, let alone manage a multi-billion company...

[CMonster]

1978 -I was in the US army on a launch crew for the Pershing I nuclear missile system.... judging by the eyes, this was just prior to Bill's landmark meeting with Lucifer.

[hard candy]

You think they were ranting about the SOB's at AT&T or Xerox controlling the OS market and probably vowed never to be that greedy? Nah! They were probably dreaming of making $50,000 a year someday.
Hey, that's my mama down in front!:confused:

[ixthus]

LOL

that was a good year! it was still 350 ~ 400 yen to the dollar.

[superted]

In 1978 i wasn't even planned :p

[Warheart]

Xmm.... I was -4 (minus) years old back then...Good old times :)

[redhat81]

That's how most Linux programmers look like today. Seriously.

[BaVinic]

Laugh if you must, be ammused if you will, but that picture is a collection of some of the best hackers for those days. with the exception of Mr. Bill that is :)


BaVinic

[Icarus]

Originally posted by BaVinic
Laugh if you must, be ammused if you will, but that picture is a collection of some of the best hackers for those days. with the exception of Mr. Bill that is :)


BaVinic That is very true, those were some the hardest working system hackers from that time (Steve Jobs and crew were the othe half).

If you think 25 year old pictures of nerds is funny, let's see your picture from 1978 :D

That picture is from before there was even DOS...how about a recent picture of the guy that makes our OS?

http://www.buchkritik.at/themen/linux/torvalds.jpg


...and that is a good picture ;)

[plonka2000]

What a buncha cowboys! :rolleyes:

[Gertrude]

Originally posted by BaVinic
Laugh if you must, be ammused if you will, but that picture is a collection of some of the best hackers for those days. with the exception of Mr. Bill that is :)


BaVinic

They still are fun to look at regardless of their abilities, or achievements.

[jlmb]

Originally posted by Gertrude
They still are fun to look at regardless of their abilities, or achievements.

Yup.


1978?? My soul was still flying across the universe, free and happy:D

[tanna]

I wasn't born and alive back then. :)

Linus T. looks like he's been dipped in a pond though. apposed the the micropeople who seem to dry and busy to use an eyecleaner or take a shower.

[CMonster]

....so what kind of person uses Linux today, and eschews Microsoft?

-and x-hippie, nuke-missile tech, biolab-tech, balding-old-fart-mechanic for the local utility --don't laugh your life too will go by in a flash!



http://www.dslextreme.com/users/cmonster3/aging.jpg

[DSwain]

I wonder how much the original of that pictures worth. Or as Mastercard would say-

Priceless

Can somebody name all the people in the picture?

[spagnitz]

Originally posted by DSwain
I wonder how much the original of that pictures worth. Or as Mastercard would say-

Priceless

Can somebody name all the people in the picture?

Sure, multi-millionaire #1, multi-millionaire #2, multi-millionaire #3...

[tanna]

I wa just going to to do the same thing. but not with the word multi-millionare. ;)

[drummerboy195]

1978. lets see, that was a year before my mother graduated high school, and then she went to college, and it was anouther couple year before she and my dad got married. hmm.......

[Gertrude]

Can somebody name all the people in the picture?

After about 15 minuets on google I got em all.


Upper left: Steve Wood.

Upper middle: Bob Wallace

Upper right: Jim Lane



Middle left: Bob O'Rear

Middle second from left: Bob Greenberg

Middle second from right: Marc McDonald

Middle right: Gordon Letwin



Bottom left: Bill Gates.

Bottom seconf from left: Andrea Lewis

Bottom second from right: Marla Wood.

Bottom right: Paul Allen.

[Parcival]

Laugh if you must, be ammused if you will, but that picture is a collection of some of the best hackers for those days.

When it comes to visualize a good hacker babe I still prefer to think of Trinity. :D Although... the women in the pic kinda look like her, don't they? :D

[tanna]

hacker girl.
http://www.sheridanc.on.ca/academic/computing/cp/images/girl.jpg
oh no, wait, it's just another mindless one looking good in a picture for a third-rate university.

[Gertrude]

Upper middle: Bob Wallace looks more like Trinity then those girls do.

I thought this thread would have got locked within 20 minuets of posting it.. seeing how it is kinda...


http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/lol/spamato/spam-c07.jpg

[tanna]

is that strawberry i scream?

[kshim5]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Biil gates looks like a punk *** weanie :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Tony Jones]

Just think, Chewbacca(Steve Ballmer) owns Tech TV and the Rock & Roll Museum in Seattle! :)

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Don't I see some of je_fro's former incarnations in there? :eek:

Come on, je_fro, let us in... which one are you really?

;)

[Parcival]

Back to serious: looking at the picture I wondered what happened to the other guys except Billyboy. Why is he head of the company now and not somebody else of the team?

Using "short history" and "Microsoft" as search strings I found histories of MS-DOS, OS-2 and UNIX, but not a good site on the history of MS. Anybody know a good URL?

[tanna]

heh........when you go to http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp and they say high-resloution images, they mean high-resolution images.

a 22MB tif image. I was about to faint.

[bosox79]

Originally posted by tanna
heh........when you go to http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp and they say high-resloution images, they mean high-resolution images.

a 22MB tif image. I was about to faint.

I guess MS has server space to waste:D

[Parcival]

If you ever get bored with kde-look.org, you know where to find fresh wallpapers... :D

Okay, so Bill and Steve went to college together and Bill worked really hard to make computing enjoyable for its user... so much for the MS propaganda.