{"id":733,"date":"2009-10-28T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-10-28T11:50:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:50:35","slug":"microsoft-basic-timeline-easter-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft BASIC Timeline + Easter Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=43\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/paulrickards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pet-ms-basic-300x220.png\" alt=\"pet-ms-basic\" title=\"pet-ms-basic\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pet-ms-basic-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pet-ms-basic.png 384w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is a fascinating history of Microsoft BASIC, that starts from it&#8217;s origins on the Altair 8800 through to the Commodore 128.  Gates himself inserted several &#8220;easter eggs&#8221; in the code for BASIC in case it was ever lifted by another company for use in another machine&#8211; he&#8217;d have the proof.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=43\">Link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fascinating history of Microsoft BASIC, that starts from it&#8217;s origins on the Altair 8800 through to the Commodore 128. Gates himself inserted several &#8220;easter eggs&#8221; in the code for BASIC in case it was ever lifted by another company for use in another machine&#8211; he&#8217;d have the proof. Link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}