Elk Cloner, written in 1982 by then-15-year-old Rich Skrenta of Pittsburgh, was a boot-sector virus designed to infect Apply II computers and was the first to be detected in the wild.
Brain, created in Pakistan in 1986, was the first PC virus to be found in the wild.
And the first antivirus program? Reaper, which was created to delete Creeper.
BBN Technologies, by the way, was the proud owner of the second domain name to be registered on the Internet, as we found out in last week’s question. Which was the first?
The first domain name registered was Symbolics.com. It was registered March 15, 1985, to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge, Mass.
It was not the first domain name created, however — that title goes to Nordu.net, a Scandinavian research collaboration, which created the domain Jan. 1, 1985. Nordu.net was used for the first root server (nic.nordu.net), according to DomainNameNews. However, once registration was permitted, Symbolics got in the door first.
The second domain name registered was Bbn.com, registered to BBN Technologies April 24, 1985.
The initial rounds of domain registration weren’t exactly a mad dash: By 1992, fewer than 15,000 .com domains had been registered. At the end of 2010, there were 205.3 million overall, according to VeriSign. And IPv6 is on deck.
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