AllThingsD » Michael Totty http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The First Virus … http://allthingsd.com/20110926/the-first-virus/ http://allthingsd.com/20110926/the-first-virus/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:00:40 +0000 Michael Totty http://allthingsd.com/?p=124638 Malware — viruses, worms, Trojan horses and the like — has been around about as long as the first networked computers. In fact, 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the first known computer virus, a laboratory experiment that didn’t cause damage but proved to be a harbinger of the risks to come. Here is a brief timeline showing some of the milestones in the history of computer mischief.

1971: Creeper

The first known virus-like program was written by an employee of a Cambridge, Mass., company that built part of Arpanet, the predecessor to the Internet. The program was a lab test to see whether it was possible to create a self-replicating bit of software.

1982: Elk Cloner

A junior-high student came up with the first self-propagating program released outside the lab. The program spread via floppy disks on old Apple II computers — displaying a short poem on infected machines.

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The Wall Street Journal published a special tab (click the image to make it larger) about our sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place live two weeks ago.

The Journal editors selected about half of the interviews done there by Walt Mossberg and me, either separately or together, and edited the longer transcripts down to the parts they thought readers would like best.

Those interviews include: Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; Yahoo’s (YHOO) Sue Decker and Jerry Yang; Amazon’s (AMZN) Jeff Bezos; Activision’s (ATVI) Bobby Kotick; the Gates Foundation’s Melinda Gates; TiVo’s (TIVO) Tom Rogers; and Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. (NWS) (owner of this site and the conference).

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We hope you’ll enjoy the tab, which is both in print and also online. And you can always read all about it in our D6 highlights here, including super-duper live-blogging from the conference by Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski.

There is also a podcast about the conference with Walt and me, conducted by The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Totty.

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