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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by Simon_says on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @07:20AM (#24281369)
Oh, Robert Morris is quite notorious, rivaling PG.
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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by graeme on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @10:56AM (#24283023)
For bring a yc founder though? And if you read articles back in the day mentioning who YC was founded by?
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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by Simon_says on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:15PM (#24289217)
Second sentence of his Wikipedia page says what he is best known for:

> He is best known for creating the Morris worm in 1988,[3] considered the first computer worm on the Internet.[4]

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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by graeme on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:48PM (#24297143)
That was my point: when people think of yc founders, they think paul graham, not robert morris. Even though morris has fame in general.
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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by loco5niner on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:53PM (#24297206)
Never heard of him
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Re:Africa declared free of wild polio by Simon_says on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:13AM (#24301559)
Get off my lawn.
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