> Ask your non tech millenials how much BASIC they learned and they would look at you like you grew an extra arm.

Yes, but they would say the same about any other programming language too.

BASIC was common on the Apple ][ series, and in the Win95 era QBasic was popular.

It was not impossible to have access to computers in the educational environment (either in class or as an extracurricular) before middle school, either.

In India, I think we still had BASIC taught in schools and private coaching centers in 95-98.