Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93
My, my… how far we’ve come. Once upon a time computers had no passwords…
In the course of refining time-sharing systems in the 1960s, Dr. Corbató came up with another novelty: the computer password.
C.T.S.S. gave each user a private set of files, but the lack of a login system requiring a password meant that users were free to peruse others’ files.