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Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: Black Sheep on March 13, 2018, 07:58:34 PM

Title: 1988
Post by: Black Sheep on March 13, 2018, 07:58:34 PM

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/in-1988-a-college-kids-screwup-changed-the-internet-forever/

Title: Re: 1988
Post by: kitz on March 13, 2018, 08:19:07 PM

99 lines of code to gauge the size of the Internet!   :-X

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Regardless of motive, Morris made a serious blunder. Within its relatively simple programming, he made the worm far too quick, too aggressive, and too obvious.

Title: Re: 1988
Post by: burakkucat on March 13, 2018, 08:51:25 PM

I remember reading about it in either 1989 or 1990 and found it amusing that the perpetrator was the son of high level USA NSA technologist.