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Happy Spamiversary!
Shippy writes "Ten years ago today, a pair of Arizona attorneys launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet. It was the birth of spam. They did this by whipping up a Perl script that flooded message boards advertising their legal services." Update: 04/14 05:26 GMT by S : That'd be ten years ago, not twenty.
that we should blame perl for all our spam?
Karma: Negative (Mostly affected by dorm trolling)
Isn't it great that we can "celebrate" the start of such a huge annoyance? I think I can truthfully say i liked SPAM better when it was a processed meat product.
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PERL has always existed.
PERL is mother.
PERL is father.
Humans where deamed advanced enought in 1987 for PERL to be shown to them.
PERL is everything (Including the secret behind happy fun ball).
That can't be right. My resume says I have 20 years of Perl experience.
A pair of Arizona attorneys sent the spam 10 years ago each, for a total of 20 years ago.
A pair of Arizona attorneys sent the spam 10 years ago each, for a total of 20 years ago.
Ah so it's not new math, it's RIAA math...
That's nothing. A recruiter in 98 called me once to see if I can provide reference for a friend with 10 years of windows 98 experience.
Destroy the origional vampire and the rest will vanish!!
You know, it kind of makes an odd sort of sense that lawyers were the first spammers. Aren't they the first to ruin most fun things?
EVERYDAY IS CATURDAY
They did it so that they could sue people for doing it later on.
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