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"The Creeper virus, it was first detected on ARPANET" - WikiPedia. The Creeper Virus displayed the message when connecting via dial-up: "I AM THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN". It was discovered in 1789. This answer is Abhinav jain

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It was a simple application that displayed a punk message the fiftieth time you turned on the computer.Harmless but could be annoying

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