<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 30, 2025, at 9:11 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>Who'd have ever thought, back in the day, that it would turn into what it<br>did? Well, probably John Brunner, whom I (sadly) never met, who was there<br>before any of us.)<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>The reference here is to Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner in 1975.</div><div><br></div><div>I did meet him once. He came by PARC to talk to John Shoch and John Hupp, who </div><div>had written a network “worm” after Brunner’s naming. A very prescient author!</div><div><br></div><div>“The “worm” programs — early experience with a distributed computation”. Shoch and Hupp <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/102616.102636">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/102616.102636</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Larry</div><div><br></div></body></html>