Internet

The Great Worm -- an power point presentation script

an all black slide with the giant movie logo "REVENGE OF THE NERDS" (available from http://www.supermanfred.it/nerds.htm -- the image will need to be slightly edited to remove "the website" from it) in the center. Play a section of "She Blinded me with Science!"

Script: [said ominously] "It was the eighties. Anything could have happened. The internet was still a text-based baby and there wasn't even public dial-up access yet. Nonetheless, over 60,000 systems in universities, corporations and government offices were connected in a living system... one that was about to get seriously ill.

The image is an old college picture of Robert T. Morris (available from http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/hackers/robert-morris / ). A list on the side of the image reads:

*Robert T. Morris, JR.

*Cornell Computer Science Graduate Student

*Future founder of Viaweb & MIT professor

*Criminal Mastermind?

Script: "Robert T. Morris...
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