Language developed in early 1960's at Dartmouth College:
B (eginner's)
A (All-Purpose)
S (Symbolic)
I (Instruction)
C (Code)
Answer to complicated programming languages (FORTRAN, Algol,
Cobol ...). First timeshare language.
In the mid-1970's, two college students write first Basic for
a microcomputer (Altair) - cost $350 on cassette tape.
You may have heard of them: Bill Gates and Paul Allen!
Every Basic since then essentially based on that early version.
Examples include: GW-Basic, QBasic, QuickBasic.
