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Spam Turns 30
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-05-05 15:49:51 470
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Source: Google/AP
No, not the luncheon meat.
This week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face -- and other anatomical regions -- of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday.
But the message sent on May 3, 1978 by a marketer for the now defunct DEC computer company to around 400 people on the west coast of the United States wasn't called spam, and the sender dispatched it without ill intent.
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News Source: Email
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