My first ever fork bomb was in the 90s, running Microsoft own example code for OLE (or was it COM?).

That was a great early lesson to never trust code you read online. Even if it is from Microsoft’s own developer portal.

Care to clarify? Windows doesn't have fork or a fork equivalent...

	▲	connicpu 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A fork bomb can refer to any process that spawns multiple recursive child processes. You don't need fork to spawn more copies of yourself, that is merely the classic Unix implementation.