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jul 30, 1981 - Elk Cloner Program

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A program called Elk Cloner, written for Apple II systems and created by Richard Skrenta. Apple II was seen as particularly vulnerable due to the storage of its operating system on floppy disk.

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Date:

jul 30, 1981
Now
~ 44 years ago