The network started to breathe in the 70’s. Above, the first ethernet cable, found in PARC’s labs by Boing Boing Gadgets . Dag Spicer , numero uno Curator at the Computer History Museum, tells us more: John Shoch and Jon Hupp at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center discovered the computer “worm,” a short program that searches a network for idle processors. Initially designed to provide more efficient use of computers and for testing, the worm had the unintended effect of invading networked c