Bill Gates Teen Idol —
The Monkey Methods blog has posted
pictures of a young Bill Gates supposedly posing for a
Teen Beat photospread back in 1983. I'm willing to believe that the photos are real pictures of a young Bill. But I'm not willing to believe that they're from
Teen Beat, not unless more evidence is provided, such as a scan of the article itself. Some of the people who have posted comments on the Monkey Methods blog have pointed out problems with the claim that these photos are from 1983. For instance, there's clearly
an Apple Computer a Macintosh visible in the first picture. But the
Apple Macintosh only began to be sold in 1984. Plus, why in the world would
Teen Beat have wanted to do a photospread of Bill Gates?
Update: These pictures were
taken in 1985 by celebrity photographer Deborah Feingold shortly after the release of Windows 1.0. This information comes from Corbis.com, which has these photos in their database. There's no evidence that they ever appeared in
Teen Beat.