Epstein Secrets

3 :,„ 10:56:01 -0700 Message-Id: <9310081756.AA27745@ netmail.microsoft.com> X- Msmail-Message-Id: 15305A55 X-Msmail-Conversation-Id: 15305A55 From: Bill Gates To: [email protected] For years after the telephone was invented, in 1876, people thought it was a device that would transmit news, drama,

ation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem

or face to face, as I discovered while I was =working on this story. Sitting at my computer one day, I realized that I could try to communicate with Bill Gates, the chairman and co- founder =of the software giant Microsoft, on the information highway. At least, I could send E-mail to his electronic address,

sation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem

or face to face, as I discovered while I was =working on this story. Sitting at my computer one day, I realized that I could try to communicate with Bill Gates, the chairman and co- founder =of the software giant Microsoft, on the information highway. At least, I could send E-mail to his electronic address,

sation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telephone for a hundred thousand dollars, he is said to have replied, "What use could this company make of an electric toy?" This rem