Gates and his Windows are the logical extension of Winky Dink and his Magic Window.
But Winky Dink's influence lives on in every screen that every person today regards as a two-way window.
"Send your name and address, along with 50 cents, to Winky Dink, Box 5, New York, 19, New York!"
Winky Dink and Gates both saw the true back-and-forth possibilities of those screens.
There is a line that occasionally pops up in Winky Dink-related literature.
The Philadelphian has recorded wins over Antonio Tarver and Winky Wright in his last two fights, both former world champions and both left-handers.
Winky Dink guilted them into sending in the 50 cents so they weren't deprived of what every other kid on the block was doing.
England's Howard Eastman is the WBC's mandatory challenger and "Tito" may have to smash through light middleweight king Winky Wright to get to "The Executioner".
It will be only fitting and right if the three faces on the side of the mountain are those of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Winky Dink.
Winky Dink's adventures were not all that spectacular -- but it is what he asked the children watching the show to do that heralded a cultural change.
What Gates has accomplished is essentially Winky Dink writ large.
Winky Dink said he wanted the children to mail away for a "Magic Window, " which was actually a cheaply produced, thin sheet of plastic that adhered to the TV screen by static electricity.
Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy (two of the best improvisational comedy actors working today) portray Gerry and Cookie Fleck, a Florida couple of modest means who have pinned all their hopes of fame and glory on their little Norwich terrier, Winky.
According to author Billy Ingram, perhaps the world's leading Winky Dink authority, many children who didn't own the plastic sheets simply took crayons they had around the house and, on Winky Dink's cue, drew directly on the glass screens of their parents' expensive first-generation television sets.
Thus was born "Winky Dink and You" -- a primitive and rudimentary first step into what would eventually become the screen-obsessed world in which we live today: millions of people endlessly tapping away, sending and receiving messages, relentlessly responding to what glows in front of their eyes, regarding their screen as almost a person, a friend.
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