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Yes, it’s David Blaine’s birthday.
Meantime, in 1975, it’s also the day that Microsoft - or Micro-Soft as it was way back when* - was created. Bill Gates, 19, and Paul Allen, 22 changed the world as we would come to know it.
Yes, everything that pretty much has ever happened, pro and con, in computers in the modern age can be traced back to this fateful day.
It’s not all bad.
Before these guys stepped in, this is what computers used to be like:
Check out the early iPod prototype in the bottom-left.
Bill Gates might have done some despicable things, but he knew enough that in a photograph bad hair and bad glasses is one thing, but a beard as well? That’s the stuff of myth. As is this classic 1978 photograph, which, I don’t know about you guys, I enjoy again and again, perhaps a little bit more each time I’m reminded of it.
(Note: Technically, the name ‘Micro-Soft’ wasn’t conceived for a little while later, but the reality of the company, inasmuch as being a living and breathing thing, can be traced back to April 4, 1975.)
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