Nowadays, basic has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a Dartmouth College basement. Devised initially by a group of the schools undergraduates and professors, BASICs initial academic purpose was simple: to enable time-sharing on Dartmouth computers with an easy-to-learn, English-based language.
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