Comments on: 16 candles for first Internet worm

In 1988, a student unleashed a self-replicating worm that halted thousands of computers--and lit a fire under online security.

Morris was a student at Cornell

Robert Morris was a grad student at Cornell when he released the virus.

As the people at MIT know
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/morris-worm.html

Thanks

I thought I was going senile for a minute there. I was at Cornell
when Morris released the worm, so this article had me
wondering if I'd forgotten which school I went to.

[Ubber geek]

grad student

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Error in this story

The story says, "Once it [The Internet] was opened to the public--and became known as the World Wide Web..."

This is not true. The Internet is still known as the Internet. Its name was not changed to the World Wide Web. That's like saying the name of electricity was changed to Light Bulb. Wrong!

According to dictionary.com, the definition of Word Wide Web is, "The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system." Here's the link:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=world%20wide%20web

You can also look up the definition of Internet:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Internet

Please get the facts correct.

KB