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Happy Spamiversary!

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. That's not true. by James+A.+N.+Joyce · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's the work of a few hours to write a perl/python/php script that works with a few dozen proxies to flood the shit out of a blog or web board.

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    Selling my K5 account
  2. Re:The new math? by buzzbomb · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That's not new math...

    That's RIAA math!

  3. Re:The new math? by starm_ · · 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.

  4. Re:The new math? by PhilHibbs · · Score: 0, Redundant

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