If you know nothing of a computer,but you might have heard about virus "worms" something like that."worms" is very destructive and very dangerous causing the systems to slow down.
You have to blame Robert Tappan Morris for this all.
Don't blame him much because he did it not on purpose if he wouldn't somebody would have done it.If any country creates a worm and spreads it to anothers and it takes down they can't have secured the data if Robert had not found it.They wouldn't have found how to stop worms.
Back in 1988,while a graduate student at Cornell Unviersity,Morris created the first worm and realeased it on the Internet.He claimed it was all an experiment gone wrong,a test to see how big the new Internet was.The worm turned out to be more that a test:It replicated quickly,slowing computers to the point of non-fucntionality and virtually cripping the Internet.He was eventually fined and sentenced to three years probation.
Since then,he has earned his Ph.D. from Harvard and made millions designing software.Today , he is a computer science professor at MIT.Not Bad....
Source : discovery news
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