Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.

Back in the early 1960s, programming for computers was a job that was just for computer scientists. That changed 50 years ago today with the introduction of BASIC, a computer language that was created ...

Take a cursory glance at the history of language in advertising and you’ll notice one thing: simplicity rules the day. Whether that’s the number of images used or the exact wording of an advertisement ...

The BASIC language may be considered old-hat here in 2025, and the days when a computer came as a matter of course with a BASIC interpreter are far behind us, but it can still provide many hours of ...

John G. Kemeny (left) and Thomas E. Kurtz made a truly Basic contribution to computer science in 1964. Courtesy Dartmouth Library __1964: __ In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors at ...

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 ...

Difficult content can be taught in clear and transparent language and without jargon so that students wrestle with the idea ...

Take a cursory glance at the history of language in advertising and you’ll notice one thing: simplicity rules the day. Whether that’s the number of images used or the exact wording of an advertisement ...