jan 1, 1978 - "Hello, world"
Description:
The example program in that book prints "hello, world", and was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A TutorialKernighan's original 1978 implementation of Hello, World! was sold at The Algorithm Auction, the world's first auction of computer algorithms.[16]
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Date:
jan 1, 1978
Now
~ 48 years ago