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Happy Spamiversary! Spam Reaches 30
URL: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13777-happy-spamiversary-spam-reaches-30.html

Description:
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.

LII Topics: Internet Guides & Search Tools, Spam

Author:
Kleiner, Kurt

Publisher:
Reed Business Information Ltd.

LII Database Information:
Record 26057 created by Jennifer English on 05/05/2008
Last modification on 05/06/2008
Published: 05/15/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26057

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