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may 1, 1971 - The Creeper Program

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The Creeper virus, an experimental self-replicating program, is written by Bob Thomas at BBN.[1] Creeper infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system. Creeper gained access via the ARPANET

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may 1, 1971
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~ 55 years ago