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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. And here's the US government's response... by James+A.+N.+Joyce · · Score: -1, Troll

    from 11 years ago, just as it was starting to leak from Usenet.

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    1. Re:And here's the US government's response... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I'm wondering too. I went there, said no to a cookie, got let in. Just some .gov page. Nothing even remotely offensive. I don't get it...

      What I'm thinking though, is that maybe there's a redirect on the page, so people who are stupid enough to surf with javascript turned on, will get sent to some nasty page. *shrugs* I'm not gonna lower my defenses.

    2. Re:And here's the US government's response... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      people who are stupid enough to surf with javascript turned on, will get sent to some nasty page

      You've got it. See the two comments where the guy lists his website as www.gnaa.us? That should raise a red flag for anyone that browses at -1. Inside that comment is a javascript redirect to the latest incarnation of the lastmeasure website.

      A more complete explanation can be found here. See also this

    3. Re:And here's the US government's response... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      No, we can't "ban these people" permanently. That would be censorship and Slushgut is anti-censorship. That means I can call you a fucking stupid nigger for even suggesting that. last time someone did that (his name was StarManta) he got fucked over by the Gay Nigger Association Of America.

  2. gayyyyyyyyy sex / ps niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck you

  3. its works than i thought by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twenty Years ago?

  4. Hey, Shippy, fix your clock by Fear+the+Clam · · Score: 1, Troll

    Nice editing there, timothy.

  5. LOL, so fucking owned by James+A.+N.+Joyce · · Score: -1, Troll

    HAHAHAhaa you fail it hard. Hey everybody, I'm looking at gay porno!

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  6. Please, Hold Still by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm busy fucking you.