Computer ‘Virus’ Is Born 26 Years Ago Today
The computer virus has only been around 26 years? Sure seems like a lot longer than that, doesn't it?
Nov. 10, 1983: Computer ‘Virus’ Is Born. Tech Gone Bad 1983: Fred Cohen, a University of Southern California graduate student, gives a prescient peek at the digital future when he demonstrates a computer virus during a security seminar at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. A quarter-century later, computer viruses have become a pandemic for which there’s no inoculation.
