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From Creeper to ILOVEYOU - soft spoken sleepy learning about computer viruses
From Creeper to ILOVEYOU - soft spoken sleepy learning about computer viruses
Ever opened an email just to see who sent you a love letter, only to crash your entire computer network? 💌💥
Welcome back to The Midnight Encyclopedia, where we unpack curious stories for sleepy minds. In tonight’s episode, we trade a famous computing bug for something a bit more contagious: the early history of computer viruses and malware.
From the innocent 1971 experimental program Creeper (and the world's first antivirus, Reaper) to the infamous Morris Worm and the Melissa macro outbreak, we explore how digital…
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