... school by his parents. At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking a computer study class at Lakeside School (an expensive private school in Seattle). Within a year, he and a man by the name of Paul Allan formed the Lakeside Programmer's Group. The group was commissioned by the town to create a traffic-monitoring program. They constructed an application called Traf-o-Data that calculated the number of cars traveling down a road and would then give the best timing for a stoplight. In 1970, Bill's parents stated that he was becoming too addicted to computers and made him give up his obsession. With the same enthusiasm he had placed into computers, he dove into his high school classes, achieving better than he ever had before. Even though he tried to be "normal" in high school, he was still very much considered an outcast to those who did not ...

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