I remember at the time reading usenet postings about the worm as it spread, and I got the impression that for a couple of days many people really didn't know wh

I remember at the time reading usenet postings about the worm as it spread, and I got the impression that for a couple of days many people really didn't know what was happening. The response was very improvised. I was an intern at IBM in 88-90, and all gateways between IBM's internal network (VNET at the time) and the internet were cut without warning - even though I doubt that IBM had many VAXes or Sun3s. I'd also read Neuromancer the previous summer and me as a twenty-year-old thought this was all rather exciting...