Original upload date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 12:10:56 GMT
In 1987, a German student wrote CHRISTMA EXEC - a virus whose basic mechanisms still work if you port them to today's desktop computers. Why haven't we changed in nearly 30 years? And what could we do
...
instead?
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"It made a generation who could code
A bubble before proper consoles, who all know
That the games you get today,
Well, they might be very flash,
But they'll never beat the thrill of getting through Jetpac"
-- MJ Hibbett and the Validators, Hey Hey 16K:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
