On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

* 1990 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.

* 1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

Software which is deliberately released as open source once experienced a security debacle in the late 1980s ; for example, the Morris worm of 1988 spread through some obscure — though widely visible to those who looked — vulnerabilities.

* The Thin Blue Line ( film ), a 1988 documentary film by Errol Morris concerning the murder of a police officer

The possibility of traversable wormholes in general relativity was first demonstrated by Kip Thorne and his graduate student Mike Morris in a 1988 paper.

In 1988, Morris, Thorne and Yurtsever worked out explicitly how to convert a wormhole traversing space into one traversing time.

* Morris, Benny ( 1988 ), The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947 – 1949, Cambridge Middle East Library

Among the coauthors of this 1990 paper were Kip Thorne, Mike Morris, and Ulvi Yurtsever, who in 1988 had stirred up renewed interest in the subject of time travel in general relativity with their paper Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition, which showed that a new general relativity solution known as a traversable wormhole could lead to closed timelike curves, and unlike previous CTC-containing solutions it did not require unrealistic conditions for the universe as a whole.

The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet.

It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.

The Morris worm, in 1988, exploited an overflow vulnerability in ( among others ) to spread.

The term was coined in 1988 by one of the leading New Historians, Benny Morris.

* Morris W. McClary ( 1917 – 1988 ), in 1973 succeeded Leland G. Mims as president of the Webster Parish Police Jury.

Robert Tappan Morris ( born November 8, 1965 ) is an American computer scientist, best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet-and subsequently becoming the first person convicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

It was a strong competitor for other rivals of the early 1980s, including the Talbot Alpine, Peugeot 505 and Morris Ital and the Citroën BX, but later in its life it had to compete with the Austin Montego ( 1984 ), Peugeot 405 ( 1987 ) and Opel Vectra ( 1988 ).

She has a cameo appearance in the 2007 remake of the original cult-classic Hairspray as a William Morris talent agent, and teamed up with star Nikki Blonsky, who had played the role of Tracy Turnblad in the 2007 movie musical remake, and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who had played the role of Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway musical based on the original 1988 film, to record " Mama I'm a Big Girl Now " for the soundtrack, which is played at the film's end credits.

Morris found evidence that, in fact, there had been expulsions, which he made public in 1988 in The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947 – 1949.

In his first The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947 — 1949 ( 1988 ), Morris argues that the 700, 000 Palestinians who fled their homes in 1947 left mostly due to Israeli military attacks ; fear of impending attacks ; and expulsions.

Morris was the highest-paid pitcher in the American League on at least 4 occasions: 1987, 1988, 1991, and 1993.

* David Morris ( snooker player ) ( born 1988 ), Irish snooker player

* Two Hundred Years of Tradition and Change: The Brethren in Christ in Canada, E. Morris Sider ( 1988 )

* 1988 – The Greatest Bach Partita No. 1 in B Flat Major BWV 825 – Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 ( Limelight CD 844 059-2, Decca Record Company )

He writes a bi-weekly syndicated newspaper column, and is the author of six books: Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Crisis That Is Minor in the Morning ; ( Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979 ); There's Nothing That I Wouldn't Do If You Would Be My POSSLQ ( Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981 ); Osgood on Speaking: How to Think on Your Feet Without Falling on Your Face ( William Morrow and Company, 1988 ); The Osgood Files ( G. P.

Alomar was a highly regarded catcher in the San Diego organization after being named Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year in both 1988 and 1989, but he was stuck behind Benito Santiago at the Major League level.

Minor rule revisions were made in the 1988 edition.

Pryor served as a law clerk to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1987 to 1988.

In 1988, a Wales Minor Counties team under the control of the Welsh Cricket Association, the governing body for amateur cricket in Wales made its first appearance in the Holt Cup, a one-day tournament for minor-county teams.

He also appeared in the made-for-TV films Shooter ( 1988 ) and The Cover Girl Murder ( 1993 ) which starred Lee Majors.

Majors also made a cameo appearance in the 1988 holiday comedy Scrooged.

According to the same record book, the Majors won the pennant race ( atop the regular season standings ) in 1946, 1947, 1956, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1975 and 1988.

While Ripken came up to the Majors as a second baseman, he did play two games at third in 1988.

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song " Orinoco Flow " ( sometimes incorrectly known as " Sail Away ").

It includes most of her hits from 1988 to 2008 including a new version of " Aníron ", a song created for " The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring " in 2001.

* The Kelly Family recorded the song twice: live version is included on their 1988 album Live and a studio version-on 1990 New World.

*" Heavy Metal ", a 1988 song by Judas Priest from Ram It Down

The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award was established in 1988 by UCLA to honor the brothers for their contribution to music and for their gift to UCLA of the fight song " Strike Up the Band for UCLA ".

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

To mark the club's appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released a song known as the " Anfield Rap ", featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad.

Bobby McFerrin's 1988 Grammy Award-winning song " Don't Worry, Be Happy " was inspired by a popular quote of Baba seen in numerous Baba posters and inspirational cards.

The band performed the suite in concert on five occasions: in 1988, 1991, 1993, and twice in 1994 without replicating the song list.

( album ), by Sam Brown, or the title song ( see below ), 1988

In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of their 1974 song " Astronomy ".

* Israeli pop superstar Ofra Haza recorded the song entitled " שיר אהבה " ( Love Song ) on her 1988 album " Shaday ".

* Steve Earle's " Snake Oil ": Singer-songwriter Steve Earle recorded a song critical of the Ronald Reagan administration entitled " Snake Oil " for the album Copperhead Road, released in 1988.

* The song figures prominently in a plotline on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope in October 1988 when villain Max Dubujax plants a bomb in a music box that plays the tune.

In 1988, while recording his album Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty and his lead guitarist Mike Campbell called on the group to provide backing vocals for the song " Waiting for Tonight ".

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

In 1988, for the 80th anniversary of the song and the 100th anniversary of the poem Casey at the Bat, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford constructed a fanciful story ( later expanded to book form as Casey on the Loose ) which posited Katie Casey as being the daughter of the famous slugger from the poem.

* Terminator ( 1988 ), song by metal band Powermad

" Also, the song " You Know What You Are " from the 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey by industrial metal group Ministry repeats the song title ( a portion of Tuco's final epithet at Blondie ) as a background sample.

Live-action footage of an actor portraying Zippy ( Ron Brannan ) and singing a song about the character was included in the 1988 documentary Comic Book Confidential.

", 1988 song by Cacophony from their album Go Off!

Swass, his debut album, was released in 1988, with two other singles: " Square-Dance Rap " and a hip hop cover of the Black Sabbath song " Iron Man " backed by the band Metal Church.