{"id":14871,"date":"2019-03-06T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/michelangelo-strikes-3\/"},"modified":"2019-03-06T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:16:12","slug":"michelangelo-strikes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/michelangelo-strikes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelangelo Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2761\" alt=\"Michelangelo Virus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0be00__Michelangelo-Virus-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/0be00__Michelangelo-Virus-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Michelangelo-Virus.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>March 6, 1992<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelangelo_(computer_virus)\" target=\"_blank\">Michelangelo virus<\/a>, so-named because it activates on March 6, the birthday of Michelangelo, begins infecting computers. The virus will also make news in 1993. It was one of the earliest viruses to receive widespread media attention and also one of the first to prompt widespread hysteria. The irony of the name of the virus was that nothing in the virus&#8217; code referenced\u00a0Michelangelo. It is possible the virus author, who was never identified, did not know March 6th was\u00a0Michelangelo&#8217;s birthday!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/03\/06\/michelangelo-strikes\/\">Michelangelo Strikes<\/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\/03\/06\/michelangelo-strikes\/\">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>March 6, 1992 The Michelangelo virus, so-named because it activates on March 6, the birthday of Michelangelo, begins infecting computers. The virus will also make news in 1993. It was one of the earliest viruses to receive widespread media attention and also one of the first to prompt widespread hysteria. The irony of the name [&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":[4062,3576],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-michelangelo","tag-strikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871"}],"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=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}