Amaya Toman The history of technology includes not only discoveries or new products, but also not-so-positive phenomena, such as all kinds of malicious software. An example of such software is the Blaster computer worm, which today marks seventeen years since its massive expansion. Among other things, in today's part of our regular series on important milestones in the history of technology, we also remember the birth of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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Steve Wozniak was born (1950)
On August 11, 1950, Stephen Gary Wozniak, better known as Steve "Woz" Wozniak, was born in San Jose, California - an electronics engineer, programmer, technology entrepreneur, philanthropist and one of the founders of Apple. Wozniak graduated from Homestead High School, then attended the University of Boulder and De Anza Community College, before dropping out to pursue a professional career. He first worked at Hewlett-Packard, but in 1976 he founded the Apple company with Steve Jobs, where he participated, for example, in the development of the Apple I and Apple II computers. He worked at Apple until 1985, then founded his own company called CL 9. He also devoted himself to education and charity. Wozniak later completed his university education at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Worm Blaster (2003)
On August 11, 2003, a worm named Blaster, also known as MSBlast or Lovesan, began to spread across the world wide web. It infected computers running Windows XP and Windows 2000, with the number of infected computers peaking on August 13, 2003. The most common symptom of the infection was RPC instability on affected computers, which eventually got stuck in a shutdown-reboot loop. According to Microsoft's estimates, the total number of affected computers was approximately 8-16 million, the damages were estimated at 320 million dollars.
