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Spam Is 30 Years Old

Posted by kdawson on from the happy-birthday-now-die-already dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist commemorates spam's 30th anniversary, a week from today. The first spam message — archived here — was sent to 393 users of ARPANET on May 2, 1978 by someone from computing pioneers DEC. They had to type in all the addresses by hand first."

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  1. Look who's 70 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those wondering, the original spam (nee Hormel spiced ham) turned 70 last year.