They had drunk together -- the cold nectar of a prehistoric dew-pond that lay within a hundred yards of the cave -- and Desdemona had turned away curtly and hurried back to the cave, with never a lick or a look in Finn's direction, as though she feared he might take the place away in his teeth.

From the highest point where a famous gibbet stands for ever a thousand feet above the sea and where there is a dew-pond, the highest in England, which has never dried up although a large flock of sheep drink in it every summer day, one looks down into an immense hollow, a Devil's PunchBill Gates knows what's up. Mike Nudelman/Business Insider Nineteen ninety-four was a big year for Bill Gates.

The newly married billionaire landed on top of Forbes' list of the richest Americans. Microsoft was on the brink of becoming the technology powerhouse it is today.

Something else notable happened in '94: Gates gave an interview to Playboy magazine in which he correctly predicted the rise of services like Netflix and Facebook.

For context, the internet was a buzzworthy and somewhat mysterious technology in 1994. Time magazine ran a cover story on the internet and had to explain what it was in the introduction ("the world's largest computer network and the nearest thing to a working prototype of the information superhighway").

The internet was mostly used by scientists and scholars, though computers were becoming