Happy spamiversary! Spam turns 30 »
Posted By Wil 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & TechnologyThirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam email ever. [via /.]
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Fedquip1 year, 2 months ago
I thought I killed Spam yesterday? Dang...back to work I guess.
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tdrapeau1 year, 2 months ago
I'm older than spam. Which means I may have been in the position to kill it before it got big.
Sorry internet. :-(
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