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There's quite a few interesting cameo's, including Robert Morris (Morris Worm) and Paul Graham himself.

pg too? I had totally forgotten about that.

I was curious and found the one mention of pg, in the discussion of the Morris Worm:

So Bob Morris's son froze two thousand computers. Why? To impress his dad? As a Halloween prank? To show off to a couple thousand computer programmers?

Whatever his purposes were, I don't believe he was in cahoots with his father. Rumours have it that he worked with a friend or two at Harvard's computing department (Harvard student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "Any news on the brilliant project"), but I doubt his father would encourage anyone to create a virus. As Bob Morris Sr, said, "This isn't exactly a good mark for a career at NSA."

I seemed to have recalled there was a bit more than just a mention, but I might have confused it with some other stuff I read. A lot of well known figures seemed to have crossed paths during the early days of the internet which I found pretty fascinating

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