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More Tech Troopers: Recreating iconic images from the life of Bill Gates

By Greg Shultz December 13, 2012, 10:17 PM PST

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More Tech Troopers: Recreating iconic images from the life of Bill Gates

The Tandy 2000

The Tandy 2000

ntThis image was inspired by a 1984 advertisement that featured Bill sitting in front of a Tandy 2000 computer running Windows 1.0. The Tandy 2000 featured a 80186 processor and a full color monitor and retailed for a mere $2,999.

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More Tech Troopers: Recreating iconic images from the life of Bill Gates

Bill gets pied

Bill gets pied

ntThis image was inspired by a February 1998 event in which Bill Gates was a entering a Flemish government building in Flanders to attend a meeting with government officials when a man jumped out and hit Bill in the face with a pie. The attack was caught on film by a news crew covering the event.

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More Tech Troopers: Recreating iconic images from the life of Bill Gates

The Sun workstation

The Sun workstation

ntThis image was inspired by a funny commercial for Internet Explorer in which Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer drive around town while listening to the song u201cDa Da Da (I Don’t Love You You Don’t Love Me Aha Aha Aha)u201d by the German band Trio. Along the way, they pick up an old Sun Sparc workstation from the trash and throw it in the back seat of the car. (The ad is a spin-off of a classic Volkswagen commercial.)

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More Tech Troopers: Recreating iconic images from the life of Bill Gates

The Windows 95 launch event

The Windows 95 launch event

ntThis Tech Trooper image was inspired by the Windows 95 launch event on August 24, 1995. Bill Gates stood on stage in front of a huge start button as the Rolling Stones song “Start Me Up” played in the background before he began speaking.

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More Tech Troopers: Recreating iconic images from the life of Bill Gates

A 2007 Visual Studio advertisement

A 2007 Visual Studio advertisement

ntThis image was inspired by a 2007 advertisement for Visual Studio and the Beginner Developer Learning Center that featured a young Bill Gates.

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More Tech Troopers: Recreating iconic images from the life of Bill Gates

The Windows Vista launch

The Windows Vista launch

ntBill Gates was very enthusiastic about the Vista operating system as he stood in front of the glossy Start orb at a launch event. As we all know, Vista turned out to be a tremendous blunder.

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