[Infowarrior] - Happy 25th, Morris Worm

[Richard Forno]

Eye-opening ‘Morris worm’ turns 25 tomorrow 

Here’s how a Boston PBS station covered the story at the time

By Paul McNamara on Fri, 11/01/13 - 7:00am.
   
On Nov. 2, 1988, mainstream America learned for the first time that computers get viruses, too, as what would become known as the Morris worm - named for its author, Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris - made front-page headlines after first making life miserable for IT professionals.

TV news coverage from the time, plucked off YouTube, offers a telling look at how computer viruses were perceived (or not) at the time. Here's a clip from a rather melodramatic newscast by the Boston PBS affiliate, followed by a transcript for those who prefer to read:

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