Ray Tomlinson
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Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer programmer who invented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; it was the first system able to send ma
Tomlinson in 2004
Creeper and Reaper
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Creeper was the first computer worm, while Reaper was the first antivirus software, designed to eliminate Creeper.
Ray Tomlinson
…TENEX operating system including the ARPANET Network Control Program, implementations of Telnet, and implementations on the self-replicating programs Creeper and Reaper. Tomlinson also developed CPYNET, a file transfer program designed to transmit files between computers connected to the ARPANET. In 1971, he was asked…
Screenshot of a Creeper simulation