print email comment close 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. 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