[NetBehaviour] Spam Is 30 Years Old.
marc garrett
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Tue Apr 29 10:07:20 CEST 2008
Spam Is 30 Years Old.
"New Scientist (http://tinyurl.com/4j8t8c) commemorates spam's 30th
anniversary, a week from today. The first spam message — archived here
http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html#msg was sent to 393 users
of ARPANET on May 2 1978 by someone from computing pioneers DEC
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation). They had
to type in all the addresses by hand first."
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