[LINK] BASIC

[Andy Farkas]

In a discussion about acronyms on IRC this weekend we brought up the BASIC
computer language. This link was posted, a great read, and brings back many
memories: "Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made 
Computers
Personal"

http://time.com/69316/basic/

"And thus, a far higher fraction of students gained a little experience 
fiddling
with 12-line programs that would make a pixel move…and thus knew, in 
their gut,
that every dot on every screen obeyed an algorithm.”

-andyf

PS. I owned a copy of 101 BASIC Computer Games, and typed in many of them!