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Uploaded on May 12, 2007

Overly melodramatic and cheesy Boston TV channel news report about a computer virus outbreak discovered by MIT nerds. Fun because they don't just report on the virus - they interview geeks, and insert random clips from retro videogames and TV movies to illustrate what a virus is. Remember, this was 1988!

P.S. I recorded this original broadcast in 1988 directly off the air when I was a student at MIT (that's me in the blue plaid shirt at 0:54, more 80s style at 1:05). I didn't personally know the people who are interviewed, but some of them were familiar faces in the computer lab.

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  • Acoustiguns

    Acoustiguns 11 months ago

    "Student, and part time Virus-Hunter"

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  • Jon-Michael DeShazer

    Jon-Michael DeShazer 11 months ago

    The ET Atari Game, that was a virus!

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  • Nick Buis

    Nick Buis 4 days ago

    Lololol. There's still aids and cancer you know... come on!

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  • Alex Zapaticky

    Alex Zapaticky 5 days ago

    Look out, you don't want the "sh" to get ya!

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  • Alfons Gurkenstein

    Alfons Gurkenstein 2 months ago

    Why are you still on the internet yet, if Western technology is evil?

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    in reply to Özgür Öz (Show the comment)
  • newjerseyjew

    newjerseyjew 2 months ago

    What in the 80'ss wasnt cheezy corny and full of cream.

    i call it the jizz generation

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  • mfmusic12

    mfmusic12 2 months ago

    The 21st century begins!

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  • ListenAndLearned

    ListenAndLearned 2 months ago

    i believe it was over 9000.

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  • Zurichilux

    Zurichilux 2 months ago

    Get help.

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  • Zurichilux

    Zurichilux 2 months ago

    The last occupation you would have thought the Amish would embrace is "computer virus hunter".

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  • boingbanboing

    boingbanboing 2 months ago

    The progenitor of all hipsters @ 0:42!

    If I only we had a time machine!

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  • DrZuboc

    DrZuboc 3 months ago

    I thought the Amish shunned modern technology

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