Biography of Bill Gates

Having an imagination is a virtue. Imagining an entirely new way to communicate and interact with others through a machine is a phenomenon within itself. Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, but some consider him as the most ingenious too. Others see him as a monopolizing, money hungry nerd. William Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. By the age of thirteen, he wrote his first software program, which enabled him and his friends to play tic-tac-toe. While Gates was attending Harvard, his best friend Paul Allen intrigued him with the newest electronic hardware system in Popular Electronics magazine. A man named Ed Roberts had invented the first prototype for a personal computer in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the Altair 8800.Gates and Allen had been waiting for this their entire lives, and wanted to be a part of it.