Un-happy birthday to SPAM!
Last week marked the 30th birthday of the first spam message being sent. It was sent on 1st May 1978 by Gary Thuerk, a marketing representative at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to around 400 users of ARPANET, the US government-run computer network that evolved into the Internet. The message was met with an immediate negative reaction, with many recipients complaining…
Posted: May 8th, 2008 Read More →
