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Yet Another Momentous Birthday! Basic Style May 1, 2008

Posted by Matthew Woolums in Articles/Videos.
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Who knew that today, May 1, is also the birthday of the first BASIC program? Wired News I guess. I also didn’t know that BASIC is actually an acronym for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. And all this time I thought it was basic because it was simple!

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0501 

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