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 ====== Introduction ======
-FreeBASIC
+FreeBASIC is a modern, and powerful dialect of the Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, or BASIC, family of programming languages.
+The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers. At the time, nearly all computers required writing custom software, which only scientists and mathematicians tended to learn. Since then, BASIC has been available for a variety of computers ranging from mainframes to calculators, and to personal computers alike. FreeBASIC is a dialect of Microsoft QuickBasic, of which Microsoft qBASIC is a dialect. However, FreeBASIC offers additional features and is actively maintained.