A closer look
The ultimate act of teenage rebellion used to be crashing the family car, but Robert Tappan Morris opted to crash the entire nascent internet instead. In 1988, he deployed the Morris Worm to simply "measure" the web's size, but a coding error made it aggressively replicate and choke thousands of mainframes. The absolute best part? His father was literally one of the NSA's chief computer security experts, making this the most catastrophic 'wait till your father gets home' moment ever.
