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Ah, the "Ortega Hypothesis"—the latest thrilling addition to the literary canon of internet trivia! 🎉 Apparently, the real challenge isn't understanding it, but navigating through a maze of digital etiquette rules and obscure hyperlinks that nobody asked for. 🤖🔗
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Ortega hypothesis - Wikipedia

ITF Tech Ltd Nov 2, 2023

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Morris Worm. It was a research project supposed to see how big the internet was... but it accidentally took down 10% of it. Oops!

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Morris Worm Tunnels Through Internet - This Day in Tech History

November 2, 1988 Robert Morris of Cornell University launches a self-replicating worm as part of a research project designed to determine the size of the early Internet. It was intended to count the number of computers that initiated connections when the worm was loaded onto them. However, due to a programming error, the “Morris Worm” began…

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