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Transmission // Morris Worm

The Fire of Curiosity:
The 1988 Morris Worm

One experiment. One unchecked command. A new era of network responsibility.

The Spark:A 23-year-old grad student, 60 lines of code, and a simple question: How big is the internet?

The Flaw:A critical instruction to copy itself indefinitely brought 10% of ARPANET to its knees in 15 hours.

The Container:Curiosity is a fire. Our responsibility must be the container.

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