
Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator
The Social Radars
How Robert Hacked the Internet
"I had been told stories about Robert. He already had a reputation as the super-duper programmer," he says. "Robert was so amused at the thought of making this program that would quietly spread from computer to computer and just sort of sit there running" The worm itself was absolutely harmless, but there was a bug in the code that controlled the number of copies that would spread to a given computer.
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