HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and is a coding language that controls how a website is structured. HTML forms the backbone of the biggest websites on the internet, and is a basic part of ...

Nowadays, "basic" has a very different and derogatory Urban Dictionary-style meaning. Fifty years ago on this very day, however, it was the name given to a new computer-programming language born in a ...

Surely BASIC is properly obsolete by now, right? Perhaps not. In addition to inspiring a large part of home computing today, BASIC is still very much alive today, even outside of retro computing.