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Tangent, but my favorite "Bill Gates does X" story is "Bill Gates Plays Petals Around the Rose": https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm https://www.
by js2 9d ago
Tangent, but my favorite "Bill Gates does X" story is "Bill Gates Plays Petals Around the Rose":
https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm
https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm https://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm
HN has never found it very interesting though:
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=petals+around+the+rose https://hn.algolia.com/?q=petals+around+the+rose
- pvillano 9d agoThat was fun. I should have kept track of how soon I solved it.
- slazaro 8d agoI've always assumed his inclusion in the story was just to make the story more interesting. I wonder if anybody ever asked him about it at all. After researching a bit, the story actually is from 1977, I found a PDF from the magazine and it does mention him, even though he wasn't famous except for those tech enthusiast circles. Maybe the story is embellished a bit, but at least it wasn't made up in internet times.