Tomorrow, April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates has created a blog post celebrating '50 years of Microsoft' which includes a downloadable PDF of the original source code that kickstarted the entire company.
Upon reading the blog post, the main thing that strikes me is just how far we've come in such a short time. I know, I know, it's obvious, but looking back to the start of Microsoft—and thus the start of personal computing in general—in its specifics really does bring it to the forefront: 'We were doing that just 50 years ago?'
