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The most basic form of multi-car life is the Asipetal Caterpillar, also known as a worm.
Boing Boing: August 31, 2003 - September 6, 2003 Archives 2003
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Five minutes later, toothless, half-dressed and trembling, she thrust a few things into a dressing-case, struggled into a fur coat, and passed with sagging knees downstairs, clinging to the arm of a bully whom she had known as a worm.
Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922
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When a virus duplicates itself by resending itself as an attachment to an email or as a component of a network message, it is called a worm.
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At one point on Wednesday night a couple of the Dads broke into an '80s-era breakdancing move known as the worm.
Thestar.com - Home Page Dave Feschuk 2010
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When a virus duplicates itself by resending itself as an attachment to an email or as a component of a network message, it is called a worm.
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Well, April Fools Day is upon us, and therefore so is the newest internet Armageddon media darling, the Conficker worm. aka Win32 Conficker.
Mobility Site 2009
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Well, April Fools Day is upon us, and therefore so is the newest internet Armageddon media darling, the Conficker worm. aka Win32 Conficker.
Mobility Site 2009
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Well, April Fools Day is upon us, and therefore so is the newest internet Armageddon media darling, the Conficker worm. aka Win32 Conficker.
Mobility Site 2009
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Back in 1988, when the Internet was mainly used by academics, Cornell University graduate student Robert Morris wrote a program that spread surreptitiously from computer to computer -- the first "worm."
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A much finer filament coiled horizontally from the front toward the "worm."
Critical Condition Clement, Peter, M.D 2002
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