Timeline for Was Bill Gates' mugshot photo used in 2010 as a template for Outlook contacts?
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| Jan 13, 2021 at 5:51 | comment | added | phoog | @fraxinus ... Kodak had been the subject of an antitrust action in the 1950s, after which color photography became much less expensive in the US. Certainly for consumer snapshot photography black and white film was uncommon by the mid seventies. It's not surprising that some departments switched to color before 1977. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 5:48 | comment | added | phoog | @IMSoP more like 40 years. But... | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 15:31 | comment | added | fraxinus | @IMSoP Where I live, color photography was rare, expensive, of medicore quality and limited in use in the first half of 1980s. I am sure it was cheaper to go b/w even in the US in 1977. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 14:42 | comment | added | IMSoP | @fraxinus Why would they not? Kodak had been selling colour film for 20 years by that point. But if you doubt the authenticity of that extremely famous photo, that would be worthy of a separate question. | |
| Sep 28, 2020 at 13:25 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | +1 for having something on this site that's not pouring gas on a conspiracy theory linked to hate movements | |
| Sep 26, 2020 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSkeptic/status/1309779771673505792 | ||
| Sep 26, 2020 at 6:42 | comment | added | fraxinus | Did the police in 1977 use color photography for mugshots? | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 23:18 | history | edited | F1Krazy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 18:03 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 17:59 | comment | added | BmyGuest | @Oddthinking Well, I was certaily hoping that such an intriguing and funny story would over time produce another source than just a semi-decent Photoshop trace which is not even super-convincing. The lack of it is what makes me suspicious. | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 17:52 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 15:01 | answer | added | Laurel | timeline score: 74 | |
| Sep 25, 2020 at 14:06 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | @Laurel: I think the biggest question is whether that silhouette image was ever used in Outlook, or whether it is a hoax. | |
| S Sep 25, 2020 at 14:06 | history | suggested | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed tense. The original title could suggest that the silhouette is still is use.
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 14:00 | comment | added | Laurel | What evidence are you looking for? (There seems to be a lot of evidence that the images are genuine, but not so much evidence for whether the silhouette is based off the mugshot, other than what you might assume by looking at them.) | |
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 12:17 | history | edited | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2020 at 12:10 | history | asked | BmyGuest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |