The Hello World Collection
The Democracy — BASIC
BASIC · Dartmouth Time-Sharing System
Kemeny and Kurtz ran the first BASIC program on the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System at 4 a.m. on 1 May 1964, acting on the conviction that "every undergraduate should have access to a computer." The line-numbered, all-caps idiom became the lingua franca of the home-computer revolution: Microsoft was founded in 1975 to sell Altair BASIC, and through the next decade the language was burned into ROM on the Commodore 64, the Apple II, the IBM PC, and the Atari 800.
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