You're missing a big one, November 2, 1988, the Morris Internet Worm. Arguably more important than any of those overhyped MS-DOS boot sector or disk viruses, s

You're missing a big one, November 2, 1988, the Morris Internet Worm. Arguably more important than any of those overhyped MS-DOS boot sector or disk viruses, since it actively spread, ran on 2 different CPU architectures and used a variety of techniques to spread, presaging other more bothersome Windows things like Code Red or Nimda. My experience was disappointment on Nov 3, since my employer wasn't connected to The Internet and I didn't get to directly experience a worm infection. A year later, I was able to FTP to the MIT computer that Robert Morris started the worm from. It still allowed anonymous FTP.