{"id":745032,"date":"2013-04-04T12:44:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223785"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T16:44:57","slug":"bill-gates-paul-allen-recreate-iconic-photo-30-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745032","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates, Paul Allen Recreate Iconic Photo 30+ Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen haven&#8217;t always been on the best of terms, but it looks the the relationship has been mended enough to recreate a classic photo at a recent event. <\/p>\n<p>Allen tweeted out the pic featuring himself and Gates clothed appropriately, amidst old-school computers. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>So much fun catching up w\/ computing pioneers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23LCMCelebration\">#LCMCelebration<\/a> last night! Here I am with old friend @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billgates\">billgates<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/a5aQaamH9H\" title=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulGAllen\/status\/319627797209444352\/photo\/1\">twitter.com\/PaulGAllen\/sta\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Allen (@PaulGAllen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulGAllen\/status\/319627797209444352\">April 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the iconic photo from 1981, for comparison. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Bill Gates Paul Allen classic photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.ientry.com\/sites\/webpronews\/article_pics\/allengatesphoto1.png?resize=559%2C386\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"559\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two were attending an event hosted by Allen at Allen&#8217;s Living Computer Museum in Seattle. The event was a reunion of sorts, with many early computing and tech pioneers in attendance. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2013\/bill-gates-paul-allen-reprise-classic-microsoft-photo-decades\/\">GeekWire<\/a>, the staff worked to acquire the same old-school computer models to recreate the photo beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, huh?<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=poZ4AsUTQrw:n0Ekqs1OBGA:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/poZ4AsUTQrw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen haven&#8217;t always been on the best of terms, but it looks the the relationship has been mended enough to recreate a classic photo at a recent event. Allen tweeted out the pic featuring himself and Gates clothed appropriately, amidst old-school computers. So much fun catching up w\/ computing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37OE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}