BASIC's 60th anniversary reminds us of the language that democratized programming, as AI threatens to automate coding
The language that paved the way for widespread coding literacy
#TBT ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for instant messaging clients when it debuted in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and those with a reason to have a cell phone actually used it to talk on.