Geek Fact for May 1st

By Judy Novotny / 05/01/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1964, the first BASIC computer program was run at Dartmouth.

BASIC stands for Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It went on to be the most widely used computer language in the world.

Learn more at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~vox/0304/0503/basic.html

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Judy Novotny

Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.