The Worm That Crashed the Early Internet (1988 — The Morris Worm)
Tony DeGonia
October 2, 1988
On a cold November night in 1988, the glow of a lone monitor lit up a quiet lab at Cornell University. Robert Tappan Morris — 23 years old, brilliant, restless, and carrying the curiosity only early hackers possessed — leaned back in his chair as he compiled the final lines of code.
