Rich Skrenta claims to have written the world's first computer virus--on an Apple. In 1982 Skrenta coded what he called 'Elk Cloner,' a virus that spread via floppy disks in the days before computers had hard drives, or for that matter, any security measures. The virus infected thousands of machines, but was harmless: It merely displayed a poem across the user's screen. An excerpt: 'It will get ...
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