{"id":14567,"date":"2018-05-26T23:16:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T23:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/bill-gates-internet-tidal-wave\/"},"modified":"2018-05-26T23:16:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T23:16:06","slug":"bill-gates-internet-tidal-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/bill-gates-internet-tidal-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates\u2019 Internet Tidal Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1569\" title=\"Internet Tidal Wave\" alt=\"Internet Tidal Wave\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/087ff__InternetTidalWave.png\" width=\"367\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/087ff__InternetTidalWave.png 367w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/InternetTidalWave-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/>May 26, 1995<\/p>\n<p>Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/larry-pages-tidal-wave-moment.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet Tidal Wave<\/a>,&#8221; which signaled the company&#8217;s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the &#8220;most important single development&#8221; since the IBM personal computer &#8212; a development that he was assigning &#8220;the highest level of importance.&#8221; Still, it is curious why it took someone who was regarded as a technology &#8220;innovator&#8221; so long to realize this.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/26\/bill-gates-internet-tidal-wave\/\">Bill Gates&#8217; Internet Tidal Wave<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/05\/26\/bill-gates-internet-tidal-wave\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26, 1995 Realizing his company had missed the boat in estimating the impact and popularity of the Internet, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates issues a memo titled, &#8220;The Internet Tidal Wave,&#8221; which signaled the company&#8217;s focus on the global network. In the memo, Gates declared that the Internet was the &#8220;most important single development&#8221; since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[894,3048,334,4305,4306],"class_list":["post-14567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-bill","tag-gates","tag-internet","tag-tidal","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}