30 Apr
2025
30 Apr
'25
1:19 p.m.
On Apr 30, 2025, at 9:11 AM, Noel Chiappa
<jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
Who'd have ever thought, back in the
day, that it would turn into what it
did? Well, probably John Brunner, whom I (sadly) never met, who was there
before any of us.)
The reference here is to Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner in 1975.
I did meet him once. He came by PARC to talk to John Shoch and John Hupp, who
had written a network “worm” after Brunner’s naming. A very prescient author!
“The “worm” programs — early experience with a distributed computation”. Shoch and Hupp
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/102616.102636
-Larry