New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming

The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964. The sign came about after Concord Monitor journalist David Brooks noted in a column that the state’s 255 historical markers honored things like bridges and historical figures, but that there was “distressingly little celebration of New Hampshire’s technical and scientific accomplishments.” Already, Brooks notes that he’s thinking of other potential signs — Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, a conference where “Artificial Intelligence” was coined in 1956, and other scientific innovations around the state.

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