10 lesser known facts about Bill Gates

Bill Gates 1. Did you know that Bill Gates’s full name is William Henry Gates III? 2. When he was a teenager at his alma mater Lakeside Prep School, Gates created his first computer program. He did that on a General Electric computer. It was a tic-tac-toe game, which was supposed to be played against the computer. The photo shows Gates watching his friend and future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen typing on a teletype terminal at the Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968. This photo was taken when Gates was 13 when he entered the exclusive prep school. 3. It is said that the young Bill Gates bragged to his teachers that by the time he was 30, he would become a millionaire. Well, he kept his word and more! By the age of 31, he was a billionaire. 4. When the school understood Gates’s genius for programing, they asked him to write the school’s computer programme for student allotment to each class. Gates naughtily took this opportunity to place himself in classes where there...