Re: dem dar worms...

[Tesla Coil <tescoil@irtc.net>]

On 5 Oct 2001, Laszlo Acs wrote:
>> In software systems, it is often the early bird that 
>> makes the worm.
>>   -- Alan J Perlis: Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN 1982
>
> Ain't that something... a bit profound...
>
> I didn't know worms existed in 1982!

That's the year researchers at Xerox PARC first described
working examples of their own.  The concept actually dates
back to 1975, forecast by John Brunner in his sci-fi novel
*The Shockwave Rider,* from which the name also arrives.

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