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10 PRINT ``In 1963 two Dartmouth College math professors had a radical''

20 PRINT ``idea -- create a computer language muscular enough to harness''

30 PRINT ``the power of the period's computers, yet simple enough that even''

40 PRINT ``the school's janitors could use it.''

50 END

A year later on May 1, 1964, the BASIC computer programing language (as demonstrated above) was born and for the first time computers were taken out of the lab and brought into the community.

Forty years later pure BASIC -- Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code -- has all but disappeared, but its legacy lives on.