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Author: Kleiner, Kurt

Happy Spamiversary! Spam Reaches 30 view detail comment email this

This April 2008 feature surveys the history of Internet spam starting 30 years ago when "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." Includes many related links. From New Scientist magazine.
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13777-happy-spamiversary-spam-reaches-30.html
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