3 May 2012
- MMM SPICED HAM -
On this day in 1978 the first every Spam email was sent.
The
first known email spam message was sent out by Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the
Digital Equipment Corporation. On 3 May 1978, Thuerk sent out a marketing email
on the DECSYSTEM-20 family of computers to 400 of the 2600 people on ARPAnet.
Although the governing authorities responded quickly, denouncing such
unwarranted marketing, the interest shown by a few of the recipients was
sufficient for the concept to be attempted again - and thus was born spam.
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