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Who Invented the Computer Virus?
The earliest computer viruses were pretty tame. In fact, the very earliest viruses -- like “Creeper” which just displayed the message “I’M A CREEPER : CATCH ME IF YOU CAN” -- were not only innocuous experiments in computing, but completely quarantined to their home networks, (Creeper was stuck on the TENEX operating system). This was in 1971, when there was no unified Internet.
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The Morris Worm was a lot more interesting to me. Smart, capable of traveling across networks and infecting remote systems. Damn near brought the fledgling internet to it's knees. It was big enough that DARPA funded the establishment of CERT/CC, which exists to this day as a clearinghouse for network emergency information.