Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington to an upper middle class family. He showed an early aptitude for computers and programming. He attended private Lakeside School where he met Paul Allen and was introduced to computer programming. Gates and Allen went on to form Microsoft and write the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800, one of the first personal computers. Microsoft's success made Gates very wealthy and he has since donated over $30 billion to philanthropic causes through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

1. Bill Gates By Someone

3. Born in Seattle, Washington to Bill Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell

4. Grew up with 2 sisters- Libby (younger) and Kristi (older)

5. Bill Gates not only became rich in his life, but his family was already an upper middle class family.

7. Lakeside School Lakeside school was also one of the first schools to have a ASR- 33 teletype machine. They were connected via phone line You would type a question into the teletype machine and the computer would print back an answer This machine acted like a computer, but the real computer was down the street

9. By age 13 he was programming computers. One of the he programmed was a computer to be used by the City of Seattle.

11. Truth: They didn’t. But in the next three weeks they wrote one from scratch

12. Microsoft After getting a deal with MITS they formed Micro-soft (within a year the hyphen was dropped) a name that originated from microcomputer and software. Their first office was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the following year Microsoft was relocated to Bellevue, Washington

13. Melinda French On January 1st , 1994 Bill married Melinda French They have three children- Jennifer Katharine (1996), Rory John (1999) Phoebe Adele (2002)

14. House

15. House 66,000 sq. ft. estate 60 foot swimming pool Underwater music system 2500 sq. Ft. Gym 1000 sq. Ft. Dining room

16. Philanthropy After retiring , he continued his philanthropy by starting the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; he has donated $28.5 billion to this Foundation He has donated (all together) over $30 billion to charity

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18. JAIL TIME!

19. The end This is how Bill Gates brought technology into our world. Bill is well known for his philanthropy, quick thinking mind and for founding Microsoft