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# ELECTRONIC-LIFE
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A (neutralized) batch-virus working like the fork bomb or creeper-virus; replicating itself, supervised and visualized by a processing sketch.
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Creeper was an experimental computer program written by Bob Thomas at BBN in 1971.
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Its original iteration was designed to move between DEC PDP-10 mainframe computers running the TENEX operating system using the ARPANET, with a later version by Ray Tomlinson designed to copy itself between computers rather than simply move.
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This self-replicating version of Creeper is generally accepted to be the first computer worm.
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The program was not actively malicious software as it caused no damage to data, the only effect being a message in output to the teletype reading "I'm the creeper: catch me if you can".
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