These Photos Of History Will Change How You View The World

When Bill Gates Gifted Us The CD-ROM

Technology has come so far in the last five years that this picture almost looks ancient. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft, which has become the world’s largest PC software company. In 1994, Bill Gates released this photo saying that “[this] CD-ROM can hold more information than all the paper that’s here below me.” CD-ROM’s were truly ahead of their time and became an instant sensation in the modernization of technology, rendering floppy disks that preceded it nearly obsolete. People were excited about the CD-ROM and at the time, Bill Gates was the king of computers while Apple was still struggling to come out with a system that could compete.