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Happy Spamiversary!

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 13, 2004 @04:21PM from the it-would-have-been-someone dept.

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.

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Re:The new math? by starm_ · 2004-04-13 19:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

I read ten, with a correction for ten in the bottom wheres the twenty??? Has the article changed? Then they should remove the correction.
Re:The new math? by PhilHibbs · 2004-04-13 21:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

What's PERL? I know what Perl is, it's a scripting language, but I've never come across PERL.