The key take away I had from the mutune article was the major viruses in cybersecurity history that also led to the advancements of computer safety.
It shares that in the youth of the internet and computers (1970-1980s), threats were easy to detect and had not yet advanced to the level which they are at today. This is because they were only 20 years old after the first iteration of the internet emerged in the 1960s as an intranet called ARPANET.

But in 1971, Bob Thomas had created a piece of code that is capable of copying itself with a detrimental effect, a virus, called, “The Creeper.” Despite originally being created as an experiment with no true malicious intent, this virus was so widespread it almost led to an early downfall of the fairly novel internet. It was able to be taken down by the first anti-virus called The Reaper, which was created by Ray Tomlinson, the inventor of the email.

Following the creation of The Creeper, multiple other viruses were created as people’s fascination with them grew larger. Some examples of early viruses are the Wabbit and Jerusalem viruses.

Wabbit was a virus in 1974 that consumed system resources (such as memory) until the system froze or crashed. It would remain on the machine it infected rather than spreading.
And Jerusalem was a computer virus in the 1980s that was a destructed file-infector virus. On every Friday the 13th, it would activate a payload that deletes all executed programs.

Despite the destruction, the different viruses made internet users all the more weary of opening foreign links, improving their safety.