[109591] in Cypherpunks
RE: Re: Melissa won't be at the Mozilla.org party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Tue Mar 30 13:38:43 1999
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:16:46 -0800
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Ken Brown wrote:
> The Christmas Tree wasn't 25 years ago - it can't be much more than 10 or
> 12 years. I saw it - I was a VM system programmer at the time which was my
> job from about 1986 to 1992. Very roughly contemporary with the Great
> Internet Worm. It "got out" in a couple of places, including I think some
> German universities.
Right. It was called CHRISTMA EXEC and happened in December 1987. As I
recall, it was more devastating on the European side than the U.S. side.
The Internet Worm was Nov 1988.
--
Jim Gillogly
Sterday, 8 Astron S.R. 1999, 18:14
12.19.6.1.3, 5 Akbal 16 Cumku, Fifth Lord of Night
