You Know You're Old When. . .

. . .you remember typing papers on a typewriter, and you went to the doctor if you had a virus.

Those were the good old days, you know, before the words personal and computer became associated with one another.

According to several articles, this marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the very first personal computer virus.

Written by then ninth-grader Rich Skrenta (now 40) who called it “some dumb little practical joke,” perhaps the funniest part of the gaff is where the virus was grown: on the hard drive of an Apple II computer. (Talk about not PC!)

I think I finally understand the missing bite in Apple’s logo: it represents the origin of the term chip off the block—knew you could do it.

For those of you who want that piece back, dig around in your non-Apple hard drives!