{"id":1049,"date":"2014-05-12T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T15:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2014-05-13T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:50:27","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-mad-computer-virus-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1049\/retro-scan-of-the-week-mad-computer-virus-edition","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Mad: Computer Virus Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mad_computer_virus_edition_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/mad_computer_virus_edition_small.jpg\" alt=\"Mad Super Special Summer 1991 Computer Virus Edition Cover\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>His missing tooth is a hanging chad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I found this in my old collection of Mad magazines.  In 1991, computer viruses were relatively novel &#8212; although I did lose all of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/914\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-cave-bbs-turns-20\" target=\"_blank\">early BBS data<\/a> to a malicious virus just one year later (see the story in that link).<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Mad Super Special &#8211; Summer 1991, cover]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever had a computer virus that wiped some or all of your data?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His missing tooth is a hanging chad I found this in my old collection of Mad magazines. In 1991, computer viruses were relatively novel &#8212; although I did lose all of my early BBS data to a malicious virus just one year later (see the story in that link). [ From Mad Super Special &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[258,832,833,831,60],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-258","tag-computer-virus","tag-cover","tag-mad-magazine","tag-retro-scan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}