The quine 11288

In his latest video, Multivac confesses a mistake he made regarding something called a quine. According to Wikipedia, a quine is "a program that produces its complete source code as its only output." This one stumped me so I headed over to the FUnetics Fanatics group.

After reading 100 or so responses, I found a brilliant analysis by a member named Rupert. Basically he figured out that the "11288" is actually a date -- November 2nd, 1988. Apparently the first major internet worm (the Morris worm) was released on that day. A worm is a virus that replicates itself, so it would be considered a quine. Read Rupert's full analysis here.

It sounds like Multivac was a major player in the early days of the internet. Maybe he's an old school computer programmer? Or maybe he created the virus?