BASIC
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== Circulating Programs in Print == | == Circulating Programs in Print == | ||
| − | BASIC programs, from the beginning, circulated as ink on paper. There was no Web or even Internet to facilitate the digital exchange of programs. Some insights can be gained by considering the specific forms of printed matter that were used to communicate BASIC programs. In looking at the specifics of how BASIC was disseminated and traveled between and among different user communities, interesting signs are seen of the practices BASIC users developed, the habits they fell into, the culture that developed among them, and finally the trends they set that continue to inflect the history of computing. | + | BASIC programs, from the inception of the language, circulated as ink on paper. In 1964 and the years following, there was no Web or even Internet to allow for the digital exchange of programs, and it was often impractical to distribute programs on computer-readable media such as paper tape. Some insights can be gained by considering the specific forms of printed matter that were used to communicate BASIC programs, which show signs of the practices BASIC users developed, the habits they fell into, the culture that developed among them, and the trends they set that continue to inflect the history of computing. |
| − | From the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, BASIC was known in print not only through manuals and books that explicitly taught the language, but also through collections of programs that appeared in magazines and in books. | + | From the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, BASIC was known in print not only through manuals and books that explicitly taught and specified the language; it was also known through collections of programs that appeared in magazines and in books. |
'''MAGAZINES''' | '''MAGAZINES''' | ||
