On this day in 1964 BASIC programming language developers John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz launched a time-sharing system at Dartmouth College. The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System or DTSS was the first successful large-scale time-sharing system to be implemented. It was the reason the BASIC language was developed, and was originally aimed at providing easy access of computing facilities to all members of the college. It began operations on this day in 1964, and remained in operation until the end of 1999.
