Creeper (program)
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| Aliases | The First Computer Virus[citation needed] |
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| Type | Jamming Software, Worm[citation needed] |
| Isolation | 1971 |
| Author(s) | Bob Thomas |
| Operating system(s) affected | TENEX |
Creeper was an experimental self-replicating program written by Bob Thomas at BBN[1] in 1971. It was designed not to damage but to demonstrate a mobile application.[2] It is generally accepted to be the first computer virus.[3] [2] Creeper infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system.
Reaper[edit]
| Initial release | 1972 |
|---|---|
| Development status | Historic |
| Operating system | TENEX |
The Reaper program was a computer worm, like Creeper, but its purpose was to delete the latter. This fact was an inspiration for Core War, and for the D-Reaper, a major enemy in Digimon Tamers.
References[edit]
- ^ Thomas Chen, Jean-Marc Robert (2004). "The Evolution of Viruses and Worms". Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ a b From the first email to the first YouTube video: a definitive internet history. Tom Meltzer and Sarah Phillips. The Guardian. 23 October 2009
- ^ IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volumes 27-28. IEEE Computer Society, 2005. 74. Retrieved from Google Books on May 13, 2011. "[...]from one machine to another led to experimentation with the Creeper program, which became the world's first computer worm: a computation that used the network to recreate itself on another node, and spread from node to node."
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