"The Morris Internet Worm source code" on a 3.5" floppy disk at the Museum of Science

Quoting from the placard:

 

The Morris Internet Worm source code

 

This disk contains the complete source code of the Morris Internet worm program. This tiny, 99-line program brought large pieces of the Internet to a standstill on November 2nd, 1988.

 

The worm was the first of many intrusive programs that use the Internet to spread.

 

-- The Computer History Museum

 

Quoting from Wikipedia | Morris Worm:

 

The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It is considered the first worm and was certainly the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It also resulted in the first conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.

 

It's somehow less impressive to just have a copy of a program on exhibit like this.

 

I mean, for starters does this floppy even work anymore, or has it demagnetized over time? Is there a backup somewhere, and if so, does it work?

 

Questions like this is why people hate making museum exhibits for computer nerds.

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