In 1988, A College Kid's Screw-Up Changed The Internet Forever
On the evening of November 2 , 1988 , in a restrained electronic computer lab at MIT , a scholar majorly screwed up . Robert Tappan Morris , a 23 - year - old computer science scholarly person at Cornell University , had written 99 lines of codification and launched the program onto the ARPANET , the early substructure of the Internet . Unbeknownst to him , he had just let loose one of the Internet ’s first self - replicate , self - propagating worm – “ the Morris Worm ” – and it would exchange the way we figure the cyberspace forever ....