History of creeper

[Juniper]

I'm wondering if anyone knows where any publicly accessible versions of the sources from https://corewar.co.uk/creeper.htm are?
I'm doing a research project on the history of computer malware and i'm looking specifically for "Kirk, Kelley E, ed. Transcription of All ARC Meeting 3 November 1972. California: Stanford Research Institute, Dec 1972." or "Shoch, John F. and John A. Hupp. Notes on the "Worm" programs -- some early experience with a distributed computation. California: Xerox Corporation, May 1980."

So very sorry if this is not the right place to ask! if so could you direct me to a better place? Thank you!!

[John Metcalf]

Hi,

There are two versions of Notes on the Worm Programs available here:

* https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_xeroxaltoermProgramsSep80_1334681/
mode/2up

* https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?
doi=10.1.1.137.9511&rep=rep1&type=pdf

I can't find the transcript, but I think it was on computerhistory.org.
It's only a brief mention, but significant because it's the earliest
reference to Creeper. It also has a vague comment about an earlier worm,
possibly the Fortran worm written by Gregory Benford (author of Timescape)
in 1969. I'll check to see if I have a local copy.

If you discover any more early references, I'd be interested to hear.
Also note, there are multiple sources which mention computer viruses in
the 1970s - the term wasn't coined at USC in the mid-80s.

John

[Juniper]

Wow! thank you!! i've looked at something on computer history.org, but it seems to be from 1973 onwards and doesn't contain the 1972 transcript.

[Juniper]

https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~sbrandt/221/Papers/Dist/shoch-cacm82.pdf seems to have the Paper published in a magazine as another source.