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Disaster recovery/business continuity timeline
1965 The Northeast blackout occurs in New York City, the first major regional disaster affecting corporate data centres.
01 June 2007
1982 The first computer virus in the wild infects Apple II computers.
1988 Cornell University student Robert Morris releases a “worm” program onto the internet that infects 6 000 host computers – ten percent of all internet hosts – and cripples the net for days.
1989 Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco earthquake lead to hundreds of hours of downtime for businesses in the affected areas.
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