25 years ago this week, the Morris Worm brought the Internet to its knees
Also, like a toddler, the Internet's knees were closer to the ground than they are today :-)<p>I was at Sun at the time and it was an interesting story but you could have completely disconnected Sun from the "internet" (which was being serviced at the time by a single T-1 line, 1.544Mbps baby!) for two or three days and it wouldn't have been the end of the world, and it would not have cut into sales. Due to some better configuration defaults, the impact of the worm on Sun was minimal.