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Fun connections if you're into that kind of thing: Robert Morris, who wrote the work, was one of the founders of YCombinator, and by extensions Hacker News. On
by edanm 9y ago
Fun connections if you're into that kind of thing: Robert Morris, who wrote the work, was one of the founders of YCombinator, and by extensions Hacker News.
One of the classic books on the history of computers is Clifford Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg". It's a great book in general, and it mentions Robert Morris and Paul
Graham, which I was surprised to find when I read it (it's not about the worm, but about a hacking incident).
And lastly, Clifford Stoll is apparently pretty active on YouTube, which I discovered when seeing a video of his for Numberphile, and finding out that it is, indeed, that Clifford Stoll.
- sillysaurus3 9y ago[removed]
- jey 9y agoRtm was pretty involved in YC back then.
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- miranda_rights 9y agoYeah! The first time I had heard of Robert Morris was in that book. I didn't know the author's active on YouTube - I'm definitely going to look him up.
- tptacek 9y agoI can't totally remember if I've got the right book here but I'm 99% sure Katie Hafner and John Markoff's hacker book "Cyberpunk" features not only RTM but Paul Graham as well during this episode. It never accuses Graham of being involved directly.
- a_p 9y agoHis username here is rtm: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtm https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rtm