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Returning to our Internet worm friend, things did not end badly for Robert Morris. After dropping out of Cornell's grad school, doing his community time as sentenced by the judge and staying out of trouble for a few years, he started a company called Viaweb that helped automate the process by which merchants could create online stores.

Morris sold the company in 1998 to Yahoo!(YHOO Quote) for $45 million, and it still exists to this day as Yahoo! Stores. He went on to get a Ph.D. at Harvard and now has tenure at M.I.T. Not all terrible events have such a happy ending, but when the basic building blocks are there, good things can happen.

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