I think I have to quibble with Wheeler's attribution of the invention of the computer virus. Credit should go to John Brunner in his 1975 novel, "The Shockwave

I think I have to quibble with Wheeler's attribution of the invention of the computer virus. Credit should go to John Brunner in his 1975 novel, "The Shockwave Rider". He invented the term worm for a sophisticated virus that could propagate through a network.