May 02, 2024 10:48:00 The programming language BASIC celebrates its 60th anniversary BASIC , a programming language that first appeared on May 1, 1964, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2024.

A brochure for the GE 210 computer from 1964. BASIC's creators used a similar computer four years later to develop the programming language. Credit: GE / Wikipedia ...

Since the 1960s, BASIC has introduced countless beginners to computer programming. Here's how the language got started, the paths it cleared for Windows and Apple, and where you can still find it ...

But I’d just done so, thanks to this strangely accessible computer language: BASIC. The next day I and my nerdy friends raided the library.