Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

1. Disable all windows except for 'Program'. 2. Keep selecting 'New Line' until over nine empty lines have been entered. The number displayed for lines over 10 will be scrambled.

Fifty years ago this month, in 1964, a computer programming language winked to life that changed the course of a generation. While many would point to the rise of Unix and other ubiquitous programming ...