A playthrough of an old game? Always fun, but there are so many... Of ancient office software? Well, that is already covered by @stonetoolsblog .

What remains, then? How about a malware?

Discover with me what the first ransomware looked like, and the bizarre and puzzling history of its creator.

“Aids Info Disk: a playthrough of the first-ever ransomware”

https://marnetto.net/2026/03/14/aids-info-disk

Thanks to @snoffle.bsky.social for collecting this piece of history.

#retrocomputing #ransomware

Aids Info Disk: a playthrough of the first-ever ransomware