Bill Gates and a Data Tower
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Creator of Microsoft and billionaire, Bill Gates wanted to show how much storage a CD-Rom could hold so he did so in this photo. In 1994 he crafted a “data tower” with paper pages to show how much information it could hold. This was quite a lot of data and pretty groundbreaking for the time.