{"id":14825,"date":"2019-01-20T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-happy99-worm-appears-4\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:15:56","slug":"the-happy99-worm-appears-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-happy99-worm-appears-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happy99 Worm Appears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-498\" title=\"Happy99 Worm\" alt=\"Happy99 Worm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/82487__happy99.jpeg\" width=\"192\" height=\"150\" \/>January 20, 1999<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Happy99\" target=\"_blank\">Happy99<\/a> worm first appeared. It invisibly attached itself to emails, displayed fireworks to hide the changes being made, and wished the user a happy New Year. It was the first of a wave of malware that struck Microsoft Windows computers over the next several years, costing businesses and individuals untold amounts of money to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/20\/the-happy99-worm-appears\/\">The Happy99 Worm Appears<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/20\/the-happy99-worm-appears\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20, 1999 The Happy99 worm first appeared. It invisibly attached itself to emails, displayed fireworks to hide the changes being made, and wished the user a happy New Year. It was the first of a wave of malware that struck Microsoft Windows computers over the next several years, costing businesses and individuals untold amounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3086,3085,2637],"class_list":["post-14825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-appears","tag-happy99","tag-worm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}