No smartass replies I’m serious I need to know I’m doing a paper.
Edit: Here I am being a shithead trying to come up with the dumbest question possible and people are getting all informative on me.
One computer peed in another computer’s butt without protection. Sorry for being explicit.
Simple. The Internet wasn’t invented, it was discovered. ‘Viruses’ have been aware of its existence from the beginning of time even though we so-called ‘humans’ weren’t. Source: You can trust me, dawg.
You would get a floppy disk that had a virus buried in it in addition to the game/software. Often via trade of copied software, I think there were one or two instances of officially released floppies having been compromised in the factory, too, so every floppy sold of that particular software came with the virus.
It’d infect your computer, then embed itself on every floppy you’d make, some of which you’d inevitably trade with friends or whatever, thus infecting all their systems, so all floppies they’d write were infected, and they’d eventually trade with others, and so on and so on and so on.
Sony had a root kit on their music CDs. 💿
I don’t know but they sure are itchy
Internet viruses came with the internet. But during the early years:
Pop ups.
Yeah it was mostly pop ups and occasionally links in emails.
Pop ups with porn were especially used for this because men are dumb and will click on titties.
People used to share the viruses because the virus would lock their computer and say something like “you must email this to 10 people to get back access”. Or something like that. I forget exactly but that used to be a thing.
Your own family and friends would send you viruses.
I’m not computer historian but I’m thinking storage media like 5 inch floppies or 3.5 inch floppies or magnetic tape
