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  1. On This Day November 2, 1988 – The First Internet Worm Was Released

    On This Day November 2, 1988 – The First Internet Worm Was Released

    On this day November 2, 1988, the first major Internet worm, known as the Morris Worm, was released by Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris from a network at MIT. The self-replicating program spread rapidly across thousands of computers, causing slowdowns, crashes, and one of the...
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