Monday, 2 November, 2026
Patient Zero: The 1988 Morris Worm That Paralyzed the Early Web
By TechShots Studio
Launched in 1988 by Cornell student Robert Tappan Morris to measure the internet's size, the Morris Worm accidentally became the web's first major cyber disaster. A critical coding error forced it to endlessly reinfect host systems, crashing thousands of university and military computers, delaying emails for days, and sparking the modern cybersecurity industry alongside the first Computer Fraud and Abuse Act conviction.
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