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BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a high-level programming language designed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College. It was created to make computing accessible to non-science students and beginners through simple, English-like commands. (from Wikipedia through Gemini's Google Search).

By around 1987 when I was a 10-year-old-boy I had great interest in informatics and eletronics, so I used to read magazines on these topics. So I was gifted Microdigital TK95's mini computer that was Sinclair ZX Spectrum compatible using a Z-80 8 bit microprocessor with 48 kbytes of memory which part of it was the video memory. By reading the manual of instructions of the mini computer I started with BASIC. I spent a lot of hours programming with it, while others, like still today, were playing video games. It lacked the ability of creating functions and I started dreaming of creating reusable code. That BASIC was really basic, and soon I stopped programming with it because the listings didn't fit the memory and I couldn't pragmatically create libraries of code. Only by around, 1997 I started again with stronger machines. Solaris at research group running on Sun Microsystems Sparc Wokstations, where I could use C, C++ and Java and use Internet with Netscape Navigator and with Visual BASIC at Co-founder's business with a Pentium PC, now with functions and classes in Windows 95 with Microsoft Access, Word and Excel plus Internet Explorer and Netscape - browser and wars never stopped - over a dial-up connection. (Camilo S.)