Which Seattle school connected Bill Gates and Paul Allen before they founded Microsoft?

Lakeside School connected Bill Gates and Paul Allen before they founded Microsoft. Gates attended the private Seattle school, where its computer terminal gave students unusual access to computing in the late 1960s.

Gates and Allen met through Seattle’s computing community and developed a shared interest in programming. Lakeside’s access to a teletype terminal connected to a mainframe allowed them to gain practical experience well before personal computers became common.

The school is sometimes mentioned only as the place where Gates first used a computer, but its importance extends further: it was also the setting associated with Gates and Allen’s early friendship and technical collaboration.