The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus

#1

Post by Mclhuman » Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 8:17 PM UTC

The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus
hopesandfears.com

Re: The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 9:23 PM UTC

For those interested, danooct1 is a YouTube channel devoted exclusively to running old PC viruses, particularly ones that have a novelty and art aspect to them, as was common before.

EDIT: Bleh, I'm an idiot for not noticing "Daniel White" was linked to him in this article.

Re: The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus

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Post by Mclhuman » Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 9:24 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #2

For those interested, danooct1 is a YouTube channel devoted exclusively to running old PC viruses, particularly ones that have a novelty and art aspect to them, as was common before. EDIT: Bleh, I'm an idiot for not noticing "Daniel White" was linked to him in this article.

Damn straight, it's an amazing channel.

Re: The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus

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Post by api » Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 9:29 PM UTC

Confession: I wrote a couple of these when I was a teenager, including one that would give you a crazy color scheme and print 'Your PC is on an acid trip' as a DOS error. I put one on a high school PC once and it ended up actually spreading around. They were pranks and weren't designed to really hurt anything, though I'm sure they could be annoying.

It's how I learned assembly language and C actually.

Re: The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus

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Post by godgod » Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 9:33 PM UTC

api wrote: post #4

Confession: I wrote a couple of these when I was a teenager, including one that would give you a crazy color scheme and print 'Your PC is on an acid trip' as a DOS error. I put one on a high school PC once and it ended up actually spreading around. They were pranks and weren't designed to really hurt anything, though I'm sure they could be annoying. It's how I learned assembly language and C actually.

Knock Knock.

Re: The Life and Death of the Creative Computer Virus

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Post by lelandbatey » Fri, Sep 18, 2015, 10:11 PM UTC

I notice that all the raw mp4 files are being shared from Dropbox. Since Dropbox can cut off download links for high traffic files, here are mirrors for each video:

Ambulance Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/ambulance_virus.mp4

Friday the 13th Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Jerusalem-correct.m...

Disk Killer Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/DiskKiller.mp4

Stoned Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/pcstoned.mp4

Data Crime Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/Datacrime.mp4

Ping-pong Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/PingPong2-correct.m...

Falling Letters Virus: http://mirror.xwl.me/virus_video_archive/TextCascade%20(1).m...