TulipTools Daily Trivia 12/4/06: What event took place on November 1, 1988

[mandy]

TulipTools Daily Trivia Contest 12/4/06

What event took place on November 1, 1988 that affected 10% of the existing hosts on the Internet?

The first correct answer receives 200 TulipShop points

[WebGraphicsSource]

"someone ‘‘infected’’ the Internet with a worm"

"This program (a worm) invaded VAX and Sun-3 computers running versions of Berkeley UNIX, and used their resources to attack still more computers. Within the space of hours this program had spread across the U.S., infecting hundreds or thousands of computers and making many of them unusable due to the burden of its activity."

[regic]

WebGraphicsSource wins!