Amaya Toman In today's installment of our regular Back in the Past series, we look back on the day when the first branch of the computer retail chain called ComputerLand opened. But the talk also comes to a less cheerful topic - the spread of the Netsky computer virus.
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Opening of ComputerLand (1977)
On February 18, 1977, the first branch of the ComputerLand sales franchise was opened. After the success of IMS Associates selling the IMSAI 8080 computer "remotely" and through independent distributors, IMSAI founder Bill Millard decided to try his luck at operating a computer franchise network. The first store - still under the original name Computer Shack - was located on South Street in Morristown, New Jersey. But shortly after the start of the operation, the operators of the Radio Shack store chain called, threatening to sue Mllard over the name. The chain of ComputerLand stores became one of the largest in the mid-eighties of the last century, and the number of branches gradually approached eight hundred. In addition to the United States, ComputerLand stores were also located in Canada, Europe, and Japan. In 1986, Bill Millard decided to sell his stake in the company and retire.
Netsky Computer Virus (2004)
On February 18, 2004, a computer virus called Netsky appeared for the first time. It was a computer worm that affected computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan from Germany later confessed to creating the worm, who was also responsible for, for example, a worm called Sasser. The worm was spread via an email with an infected attachment – as soon as the user opened the attachment, the attached program started scanning the computer, searching for all the email addresses to which it was forwarded. Over time, several different variants of this virus appeared, with the P variant being one of the most common viruses spread via e-mail until October 2006.
