Amaya Toman For many people, BASIC was once one of the first programming languages they encountered. Today we commemorate the date of birth of one of its creators - John Kemeny. In the second part of our article, we will then move to 1991, when a game called Zero Wing was released. It is from this game that the famous line "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" comes from.
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The "Father of BASIC" was born (1926)
On May 31, 1926, John Kemeny, one of the developers of the BASIC programming language, was born in Budapest, Hungary. During his lifetime, Kemeny managed to make a significant and indelible mark in the history of programming and computer technology. John Kemeny graduated from Dartmouth College, where he worked with Thomas Kurtz on the development of BASIC. BASIC was originally intended as a simple programming language to serve mainly for students there. Johnn Kemeny also worked with John von Neumann in Los Alamos, New Mexico on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
All Your Bases Are Belong To Us (1991)
On May 31, 1991, Sega released its video game called Zero Wing. The Zero Wing title was intended for the Sega Mega Drive game console in Europe. It was not released in the United States, and for many years the game was virtually unknown. It wasn't until many years later - estimated to be around the beginning of 2001 - that a screenshot of her opening scene with the subtitles "All your base are belong to us" began to circulate on the Internet. The shot – and thus the incriminating sentence itself – quickly became a popular meme that internet users resurrect from time to time.
