One night in 1988, a college student’s prank broke the internet
On the evening of November 2, 1988, in a quiet computer lab at MIT, a student completely screwed up. Robert Tappan Morris, a 23-year-old computer science student at Cornell University, had written 99 lines of code and launched the program on ARPANET, the Internet’s first foundation. Unbeknownst to him, he had just released one of …
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