Everyone knows what virus is and have had their computer infected by it, this is not news to anyone, but what most people know is who was the creator of the first virus spread on the web. The name of the figure is Robert Tappan Morris That on November 2, 1988, while still a student at Cornell University, was at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) when he made the distribution of what is considered the first malicious code to spread via the Internet.
The virus became known as the “Morris worm” and made a mess and both in computer systems, to have an idea, the plague has infected 10% of the 60 million computers worldwide network that made up the time.
As a result of its creation, Robert Tappan Morris was convicted of fraud on computers in 1990. The guy was lucky because he escaped going to jail, but racked up a fine of $ 10,000 U.S. dollars and had to provide 400 hours of community service, certainly went “cheap” for him.
Nowadays, the creator of the first Internet virus is very “well thank you”, he taught at MIT, so the place he used to spread viruses, interesting?
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So, he is who cause the great anti-virus business these days. Thanks for the info — just know about it. 🙂
So interesting! What a genius he must have been 🙂
thanks for the info, didn’t know about it
i think the next post is on who made first antivirus 🙂
this is the Person who started Virus problem and then Anti-Virus solution came up(but nowadays many anti-virus are also problem)…thanks for sharing…
This guy must be a Genius but he used his abilities in creating negative things. He should have focuse on good aspects rather the one’s which are harmful for ordinary computer user’s