History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (April 7, 2021)

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: History of Lisp? - What was ctrl+enter used for in Mathematica before Wolfram|Alpha? Were you saving that the whole time for such an important purpose? - Its crazy to think that the history of computing has less than 100 years - I'm guessing the first ASCII table was only 8 bit? or maybe even that was luxurious - Have you used Forth? What do you think about stack based programming languages? - What about the history of void/zero throughout science? - What about for debts and stuff like that? - Which pieces of v1 did you mostly code yourself vs other areas, who else worked on v1 team? - How did you develop code at that time, given there was no cvs/git? Did you send mail with the updated code? - She almost discovered Benford's law (too many nines?)