Saturday, March 19, 2011

Creeper is 40 years old, the image of the week

Creeper is a name that you probably will not say anything to the vast majority of you. But it has met its 40 anniversary this week. What is Creeper? He is recognized as the first virus ever. It was developed as an experiment to get a small program that is replicated on multiple computers, although there was some evil in its implementation beyond the memory consumption and processing time.

Was developed for the TOPS-20 operating system that ran on PDP-10 computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation and used primarily in university environments, known as Stanford or MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Creeper years is considered the first virus in history, although the 70 the name 'virus' was not yet as concrete as it is now.

Course is already fully in use, and indeed the malware landscape has changed dramatically throughout history. But it is worth remembering, right? Image | Wikipedia, corresponding to West Nile Virus. Vía | Engadget. More | Creeper in Wikipedia.

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