The Morris Internet worm
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Robert Morris is popularly known as the creator of the Morris Worm. In 1988, this Cornell University student created a computer “worm” as part of an experiment that ended up crashing tens of thousands of computers due to a coding error. Listen to this episode to find out how this whole story ended.
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