Sigg3net t1_iy0o079 wrote
Reply to comment by StarCyst in TIL The worlds first computer virus was developed by Jon Von Neumann in 1949. It served as proof that computer programs are capable of replicating themselves by s24569
You're misidentifying theoretical and speculative. You can have theoretical proof of something. Cf. Einstein's vindication that light bends.
StarCyst t1_iy0pmcc wrote
Irrelevant distinction, it wasn't 'developed' as in actually programmed into the computer by him.
the concept was developed, but not the actual virus.
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