MORRIS: Earth's First Computer Worm

1988, the first self-replicating computer worm disrupts Earth's internet.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:26 Morris.Worm Function
4:05 The Spread of Morris.Worm
5:48 NO SIGNAL Bump
5:58 Homeless Hacker Ad
7:05 The Unravelling of Morris.Worm

[DisruptReality]

Thanks for watching, an additional hacker video is streaming on Disrupt+

[BinaryPLUR]

I get so unbelievably excited every time I get a notification for this channel, the production quality, the editing, the narration is impeccable. Every. Time.

[fissionabledolphin]

0:19 wow that’s crazy man I didn’t know Guy without mustache had been commenting on random YT videos since the late 80s, really goes to show his dedication

[scoops]

11:30 - This feeling has been defined as "Sonder" - "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

[esv]

I wish disrupt uploaded more often but the quality alone makes it so worth the wait.

[sixtakefives]

It’s nearly impossible to tell the difference between your real stories and your made up ones. Amazing job, you’re one of my favorite creators

[asolebenjamin]

This is a positive comment for the YouTube algorithm.

[bert]

Disrupt: sees a computer program
Also disrupt: *I diagnose you with deadliest*

[tunfischstulle]

The Detail with „Just a guy without a mustache“ at the beginning shows how well done this video is

[BrokenHeartGxng]

can't even express how many computers got killed downloading stuff from limewire back in the day

[wolter]

That moment at 3:49 really frigging scared me! That was so smart, execution was great!!

[coasterthekid]

That reference to “just some guy without a mustache” was so perfect. For some reason I always see him in the comment section videos at least once per day. And most of the time he’s either top comment or very close to it.

[asmilingguppy]

The compression is so high I can hear all of the spitty mouth sounds. Swear he's putting more processing on his voice every other video now.

[NotCOPPAFTCA]

That thumbnail looks like that time I left a can of beans in the microwave for a week by accident.

[ItsAMoth]

The vibes of a Disrupt video always feel like a good fever dream.
Edit: I've always heard the programming error of the Morris Worm was that it was supposed to reinfect 1/15 computers, but it reinfected 14/15 computers. Guess I was wrong about that one.

[xdcountry]

Honestly— this gem of a channel/video is what the early and incredible stuff on web (the you gotta know somebody that knows somebody with those links) felt/feels like. These are works of art. Thank you so very much!!!

[Wired_User]

I fking love your whole aesthetic. This cyberwave, vaporwave, a la SE:Lain aesthetic is my favorite thing. It’s as if we’ve already achieved singularity and are uploaded onto the internet. I love it.

[innanet]

I fucking love these videos. The story, the editing, the voiceover A++

[robsands]

That feeling he's describing at the end where you realize that other people have full lives of their own that never really connect with yours is called sonder.

[Shreeechan]

Bruh when there was the animation of him skipping through the video I thought my phone was freaking out or something. Very well done. Love these videos and there style.