#OTD in 1982, the first computer virus, Elk Cloner, was unleashed into the wild. Created by 15-year-old Richard Skrenta as a prank, it spread via floppy disks and was one of the earliest examples of malicious code impacting personal computers. Every 50th time the program was run, instead of executing normally, it would display a poem about the virus, “Elk Cloner.” #ComputingHistory | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery