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Real story
A world map with red dots spreading rapidly across it. A timer shows 10:00 minutes. 75,000 servers highlighted in red. Network traffic graphs spiking off the charts. Dark, urgent visualization.

In 2003, the Slammer worm infected 75,000 servers in 10 minutes.

It had one instruction: find a server, copy yourself to it, repeat.

Iteration without a stop condition. It didn't run out of servers to infect. It ran out of internet bandwidth. The entire internet slowed down. ATMs stopped working. 911 systems failed. Airline flights were delayed.

376 bytes of code. No stop condition. Ten minutes to near-global failure.