BASIC launched on this day in 1964.

May 1, 2026 · 11:38 AM UTC

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Learned it on a VIC-20!
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Any fellow boomers remember programming this game on a Casio PB series device ?
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Beloved programming language that started the mass adoption
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"GOTO 70" -- I think I get PTSD reading that 🤣
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Reminds me a little bit of Python, without all the indents.
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My first language
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I speak this language. lol
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BASIC guy here ✌️
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Hey @grok Wish BASIC a happy birthday and try not to make any age jokes.
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sheer beauty
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You REMd nothing. Why cant people comment their code?
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An excellent language!
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I coded with QBasic in my school...
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Hi 🙋‍♂️
fatih pakdamar
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Replying to @meleklerinpayi
😊🙋‍♂️ selam Önce kasetle başlamıştık. Sonra 5.25 inç disket. Benim ilk basic yazdığım disket hala duruyor. Bir sürücü bulsak taksak çalışır mı acaba ?
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Call -151 This Is The way
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I was there, watching, and pressing F5.
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I learned programming by myself with QBasic on a Dos 5.0 80286 PC about 35 years ago.
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私が趣味のBASICで作ったオマージュゲームはこちらです(´∀｀) Nintendo Switchのsmile basic4で制作し無料公開しています。
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“GOTO”, the most loved and most hated command of all time. People forget that today’s entire digital world still rests on machine instructions like JMP, JE, JNE, and JG, which are essentially the same as goto. I guess it is acceptable as long as humans do not see it.
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Moiré patters in #Atari #BASIC. 10 GRAPHICS 8+16 20 SETCOLOR 2,1,4 30 FOR X=2 TO 319 STEP 1 40 FOR A=0 TO 319 STEP X 50 COLOR 1 60 PLOT 0,191:DRAWTO A,0 70 PLOT 319,0:DRAWTO 319-A,191 80 NEXT A 90 COLOR 2 100 FOR B=0 TO 319 STEP X 110 PLOT 0,0:DRAWTO B,191 120 PLOT 319,191:DRAWTO 319-B,0 130 NEXT B 140 NEXT X 1000 GOTO 1000
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Shoutout to my dad who typed a BASIC program into an Atari 800 from my '80s kids' magazine. We were frustrated it didn't work! The next issue included a correction that they printed the program wrong!
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I still remember writing this program on my Commodore 64 in the 80’s
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You weren't really doing anything in BASIC unless you were using PEEK and POKE.
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Every Kmart display computer was stuck in an infinite loop 10 PRINT "F**K You" 20 GOTO 10 RUN
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Taught myself Z80 basic on this back in 1982.
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Best programming language which was intuitive and easy for humans to understand, the sweet era of simplicity
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I love some GOTO and GOSUB
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I started on a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2K RAM in I believe 1982... somewhere around there. Eventually I managed to save up enough summer working money to buy a Commodore 64 for myself. 😀
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Fond memories. I wrote an entire accounting system in BASIC for a large department at the university. Very much enjoyed the project and the pay was good.
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I was using BASIC in 2015 to program my TI-84 calculator in high school
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I wrote my first BASIC program back in the 80s. I was lucky because my brother (6 years older) was getting lessons in programming. I was 8 and fascinated. It was not anything “cool” / all we had were CGA screens, so it was some silly boring ascii graphics stuff.
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"Would you like to hear a song, Dave?"

ALT Hal9000 Hal 9000 GIF
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Hello World.
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I learned BASIC on the VIC-20 in the early 80s. Eventually, I made a decent career out of writing software and hardware engineering.
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This is all it took for me to begin a lifelong love affair: 10 CLS 20 PRINT "What is your name?" 30 INPUT N$ 40 PRINT "Hello "; N$; ", nice to meet you!" 50 END And it worked. What else can I do, I thought.
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thats a reminder for me to get to gorilla.bas and make some edits - been a long time.

ALT Bell Pepper Gorilla GIF
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