Microsoft Bob was released in March 1995, although it had been widely publicized prior to that date under the codename “Utopia”. At one point, Bill Gates’s wife Melinda Gates worked as one of the Marketing Managers on the project. Microsoft originally purchased the domain name bob.com from Boston-area techie Bob Antia, but later traded it to Bob Kerstein for the windows2000.com domain name. Continue reading for more fascinating facts you probably didn’t know about.

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