machinist.salon.com— The computer virus turns 25 years old this year. The computer virus conception story begins in 1981, when a tech-savvy 9th grader named Richard Skrenta got an Apple II for Christmas.
Jul 12, 2007View in Crawl 4
I remember making joke programs on my friends' TI-83 calculators that would screw them up. It would take any input and output a random number between -99,999 to 99,999.It was only 6 lines of code too:ClrHome:Lbl A:Input "", Str1:randInt(-99999,99999)->X:Disp X:Goto A
Closed AccountJul 13, 2007
break99 can't see the forest for all the trees.
thegrojeJul 13, 2007
You mean one of those supercomputers they use to, like, do physics and look for oil and stuff? That'd be a seriously righteous hack...
tyywebbJul 13, 2007
I dug you up too! Hoorayyyyyyyy!!!!
compismyrxJul 13, 2007
I remember making joke programs on my friends' TI-83 calculators that would screw them up. It would take any input and output a random number between -99,999 to 99,999.It was only 6 lines of code too:ClrHome:Lbl A:Input "", Str1:randInt(-99999,99999)->X:Disp X:Goto A
an0nym0usJul 14, 2007
Not everyone is a f**king christian, you moron!Atheist and the rest don't believe on that eve s**t.
jo9100Jul 14, 2007
take THAT, justin long!
jkharris07Jul 17, 2007
Its pretty funny because its rare for a Mac to get a virus.