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Prankster's 1st Computer Virus Turns 25

'Dumb little practical joke' led to $38 billion security industry

Sep 2, 07 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prankster who wrote the first computer virus 25 years ago says only, “It was some dumb little practical joke.” Yet Richard Skrenta’s desire to infiltrate other Apple II’s with a poem (“It will get on all your disks; it will infiltrate your chips”)... More »

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