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First Informatics Olympiad
First held
1989
The computer-programming olympiad for school students, first held in Bulgaria.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“The first IOI was held in Bulgaria in 1989.”International Olympiad in Informatics: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“Informatics in (1989)”International Biology Olympiad Japan Committee / IBO2009 Japan: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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