On Apr 30, 2025, at 9:11 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@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