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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by yodon on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:03AM (#45812494)
That was one scary exciting day (source: was running machines at MIT at the time)
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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by canucker2016 on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:07AM (#45812542)
I remember that day was sooooooooooo quiet on Usenet.

Not much was happening in the Eng and CS buildings on campus (except for those that had to deal with the worm).

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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by baggy_trough on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @01:07PM (#45814010)
Good times, good times. I was in a Stanford computer lab when everything started to get very, very slow.
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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by jhallenworld on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:16PM (#45815414)
WPI was immune, the main machines on the net at time were an Encore Multimax and a DEC-20.
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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by Tor3 on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:28PM (#45815532)
That day our tech chief at the time came running and told us about the worm, and that apparently our country managed to avoid it because the news spread quickly enough that one guy simply unplugged the whole country from the Internet - there was only a single connection back then. (!)
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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by pyuser583 on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:43PM (#45818750)
Which country?
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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by jhellan on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:07AM (#45819779)
Could have been more, but Norway was one.

https://snl.no/Pål_Spilling#:~:text=Da%20Spilling%20kuttet%2...

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Re:This Day in 1988, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Int... by Tor3 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @02:14AM (#45820242)
Yes, that's the one.
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