This is one of my favorite nuggets in the digest, it's from November 1988. It's Clifford Stoll writing at 3:45 am about his discovery of the Morris Worm. The Morris Worm was literally the first internet virus captured in the wild.
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7.69.html#subj1
Warning - this one email will lead you to multiple rabbit holes (Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg, Robert Morris, etc).