Robert T. Morris

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Date
1990
Copyright Owner
© Bettmann/Corbis
Object ID
500004813

In 1990, Robert T. Morris (then 25 years old), created the first worm to have a major effect on real-world computer systems. It brought down much of the internet and related networks for days. Morris apologized in 2008, saying he'd sought to estimate the Internet's size, not cause harm.