I hold no resentment toward him, if he didn't figure it out somebody else inevitably would have, and probably within a close time proximity. A self-replicating program is too obvious to miss in the world of programming.
Gandalf_The_Grey Reviewed by Gandalf_The_Grey on . first computer virus Prank starts 25 years of security woes - Yahoo! News NEW YORK - What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus. Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the online news business Topix, helped launch a collaborative Web directory now owned by Time Warner Inc.'s Netscape and wrote countless other computer Rating: 5