Many people give credit to Bill Gates for the end device called the computer. But I don't think it would be nearly as useful without the network nearly all of them connect to. Without the network, there would be no email, no blogs, no online banking, etc. On the other hand what would the internet be without Microsoft? Well we had UNIX before we had Windows. In fact we still have UNIX, but I'll concede Windows had a huge marketing affect on the whole scene. I think Bill sped up the development of both the UNIX/Linux OS's as well as the dependence on the internet. But if he hadn't done it, it would have come sooner or later. Thanks anyway Mr. Gates!
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I can remember when computers were not available to ordinary mortals, and now babies (literally) are using computers to learn basics of our language and even our culture. Amazing!!
My baby(Jacob) loves computers. He's always sneaking in my room to get my iPhone which is a basic computer.
I think what Mr. Gates did, was to make a machine that was user friendly, and inexpensive-per say. I agree with you, what would the computer be without the Internet or the network. It is amazing from the computers most of us learned on to what we have today, ie. Iphones, or most cell phones today that are Internet capable. At one time, at least where I was at, most business' and corporations used MAC's as the primary computer systems for their employees. I think Mr. Gates made a less expensive solution with software packages, and that is why we see those roles changed. You know Windows XP had code that was written in 1980. Microsoft has the largest code library to date.
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