Microsoft Word 1 released 1983
Computer Programming Languages
Virus Timeline
1949
self-replicating programs are first developed
1981
Apple Viruses 1, 2, and 3 from computer games
1986
“© Brain" virus from Basit and Amjad
1987
Lehigh virus infects command.com
1988
Jerusalem infects every Friday 13th
both .com & .exe
1990
Symantec launches Norton AntiVirus
1991
Tequila, first polymorphic virus
1992
The Dark Avenger Mutation Engine
(DAME) is created
1994
Good Times email hoax
1995
Word Concept, first Microsoft Word Virus
1996
Baza, Laroux (macro) & Staog viruses infects
Win95, Linux and Excell
1998
StrangeBrew infect Java Files
1999
The Melissa virus, W97M/Melissa spreads
through email once infected
2000
The Love Bug, infect JPG and MP3 files spreads
though email
2001
Nimda outbreak, millions of pc's are infected
2002
Author of the Melissa ,David L. Smith, is
sentenced to 20 months in Federal Prison
2003
Slammer” (Sapphire) worm becomes the
fastest spreading worm to date,
infecting 75,000 computers in approximately ten minutes
2004
MyDoom or Novarg spreads through emails
2005
world's first cell phone virus: Commwarrior-A
infects Nokia Phones
1983 Mitch Kapor Lotus 1-2-3
1993 Lotus Improv ported from NeXT
Conficker virus, infects 15 million servers
2008
Operating System Timeline
1954
UNIVAC 1103
1955
IBM 701
1985
Amiga OS & MIPS OS
1956
IBM 704
1987
IRIX from Silicon Grafix
1959
SHARE OS
1989
NextStep
1961
CTSS from MIT
1990
Windows 3.0
1962
GCOS
1991
Linux
1965
OS 360 from IBM
1992
Solaris
1967
CP/CMS
1992
Windows 3.1
1969
UNIX
1970
DOS 11
1972
RDOS
1975
BS 2000
1996
Palm OS
1976
Cray OS
1996
Windows NT 4.0
1979
Atari DOS
1998
Windows 98
1978
Apple DOS
1999
Windows XP
1981
PC-DOS (IBM)
MS-DOS (Microsoft)
1999
Inferno Second Edition
1982
Sun OS and
Commodore DOS
2005
Fedora Core
1983
Lisa & Novell Netware
1984
Macintosh OS
1993
FreeBSD
1994
Windows NT
1995
Windows 95
1979
VisiCalc
Dan Bricklin (photo)
Bob Frankston
1972
Gary Killdall
Wrote the first
programme for the intel 4004
1969
Kenneth Thompson
B Language
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Computer History Section
Group Wise started life in 1986 as a set of utilities for WordPerfect. By 1990 it had gained LAN-based, cross-platform, Email and scheduling system.
The first Windows client appeared in 1992.
When Novell purchased the WordPerfect company in 1994 the product was renamed Group Wise, and Net Ware services such as gateways and management support in the form of NLMs (NetWare Loadable Modules) were added. When the rest of Novell's office applications portfolio was sold to Corel a year later, Group Wise was wisely retained by Novell.
By the end of 1994 GroupWise 4.1 already had the single universal mail box, server-based rules, and centralised administration that are now considered essential to a messaging system. By 1996 competition from Lotus Notes and the recently released Microsoft Exchange prompted Novell to add threaded discussion groups (shared public