Tag Archives: 1990s

Fellowship virus (1990). It attaches it to the end of .EXE files, but may overwrite the end of the original file. The virus itself is 1019 bytes long.

RP virus (1996) RP activates on the 17th of December. When the machine is booted on that date, the virus decrypts a message, switches the display to 40 column mode and displays the following text: RP wants to say hello! After this, the virus overwrites part of the hard drive, making the machine unbootable.

Skism virus !!!! (1992)

HLLC.Plane (1996).
Size: 8304 and written with Turbo Pascal.
HLLC.Plane activates by random. When it activates, it shows a character-based animation of a red plane flying past the screen and dropping a parachute in the middle of the screen.

GIFs made from the excellent AVG 5.0 Virus Demo Payloads video: 15 minutes of MS DOS viruses.

via windowshighasfuck

C64 BBS-graphics by Deekay, 1997. At the time it was popular to hack Calling Cards from AT&T to make free calls around the world. via

Typewritten Portraits by Uday Mahadeo Talwalkar. He has made a World Record of the largest Typewritten Portrait of India’s Melody Queen “Lata Mangeshkar” (364 sheets of A4 size paper in 268 hours).

By Stylez, 1995. Currently the most popular artist at asciiarena.com

source 

Pinky (1986-1992) screens, a Minitel Micro-serveur for Atari ST.
More info here (french)

NBC Europe Teletext aka Super Text (1993).