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Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The very first code pre-teen me wrote was in QuickBasic a thousand years ago.

Core memory unlocked.

[–] person@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Same here! ❤️

Unless you want to count .BAT files

[–] geogle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Back before dependency hell set in

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ditto. I had the option of taking a comp sci class in grade 11/12 which taught QBasic back in 2001/2002. Still got all the basic bitch programs I made for the class on a hard drive somewhere lol.