Bill Gates wrote down some of his memories of 1979 and submitted it to the Gizmodo ‘79 celebration.
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“More important, of course, is the fact that more than a billion people around the world use computers and digital technology as an integral part of their day-to-day lives. That’s something that really started to take shape in 1979.”
