Hello, World!

So, this is the beginning of Trivia Hacks, and to start it all off, I will say one of the most often repeated phrases in the computing world - Hello, World!

The origins of this strange phrase come from computer programming, where in learning a programming language, small test programs needed to be written. Therefore, a simple program outputting the text "Hello, World!" was taught as the first program to show students the basic syntax of the language. The first publication of this phrase occurred in the book The C Programming Language, and was adopted by Bell Laboratories in a 1974 memorandum.

As more and more people learned programming, and began to interact with computers, the use of this phrase as a small test program increased, and so did the use of this program across the world!

Maybe this phrase was the first thing to go "viral"!