The Creeper Virus | Hacking History Documentary

The first Computer Virus dates back far beyond peoples estimates. In this episode of Hacking History we'll be making our way from the 70s back to modern day computing to see how Malware and Software as a whole has evolved over the past 50 years.

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[zackprime]

Fun fact: creeper were accidently created because of glitching in pig model and therefore notch added it as a feature and named it creeper on the name of the first virus

[markey_darkey]

The first Computer Virus is now 50 Years old.

[-bazoona]

the first person who got his computer affected by it must have said: *_aw man_*

[Cuberates]

Very well-made video. Extremely underrated :D

[bayburtfan]

1978
Creeper:Catch me if you can
2021
Creeper:Run if you can

[hagarahmad]

Great content, buddy!
Hope you keep it up.
*found you on reddit*

[daveyshaybug]

Finally someone that talked about Raytheon my grandfather worked there top-secret stuff missiles

[spenjak]

"Yeah, some Pre-War jackass with too much time on his hands apparently decided to inflict his misery on those around him." ~Scribe Ibsen

[shandhi]

Fun fact: Creepers were first made by a failed pig model for the game but when Noach added creeper as a feature the colour of the creeper was gray.

[harrybechtle]

“This was appropriately called the reaper”
Digimon fans: nervous sweet

[electrophonics]

The community around my school on instagram has a virus stealing accounts and messaging all of it’s followers asking for their password, and now I’m opposed with computer viruses

[paulclalchungnunga]

Very informative, whole lotta thanks for the post tbh

[E_xe]

to put in perspective how much money was lost back then, the average house in 1971 was 25, 000$ and the average house price now is 374, 000$, so basically it was 15x the money back to now

[kartofelbulwiasty]

it feels like you search an question and get full tutorial on program

[proxima]

didn't know a simple minecraft mob created over a mistake would become the first ever virus

[prithabanerjee]

Creeper left a message
'I AM THE CREEPER;CATCH ME IF U CAN'

[NateWongSongs]

I guessed 70’s ... probably near the beg of the invention of the computer

[atsilver]

Ra: I wonder what wood happen if I put these prank in every computer
Government: yo fix that
Ra: more work

[Gamesational]

Creeper? So they had minecraft in the 70s?

[oogboog]

FINALLY SOMEONE WITH THE SAME SECKND NAME AS ME DID SOMETHING