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Dana Ross
Building the web since 1996. Full-stack developer, feral & abused cat socializer, tech history buff. Director of Engineering at 10up.
The program originated in a 1974 Bell Labs internal memo by Brian Kernighan of "Kernighan and Ritchie" fame. "Hello, World" was included as an example of "A Simple C Program".