I remember as a freshman in college, only armed with my knowledge of game programming in Z80/M68K assembly (no idea of Unix or internet beyond Usenet), finding

I remember as a freshman in college, only armed with my knowledge of game programming in Z80/M68K assembly (no idea of Unix or internet beyond Usenet), finding out about this shortly after it happened, printing everything I could about it, and reading these pages over and over as if it was the most amazing technothriller ever written. Files that still exist after you delete them? Executable content in email headers? It's probably the single most fascinating event in my personal history with computers.