Spam Turns Thirty

On May 2nd, 1978 an aggressive marketer decided to invite 393 Arpanet users to a product presentation by Digital Equipment Corporation. In those days, all the email addresses had to be manually typed in. That was the beginning of spam. Today, spam is thirty years old and with all of todays advancement in technology, there seems to be no end in sight. Obviously, because spam has more to do with people and their intentions than computers and technology.

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