|
Happy Friday! Today's Friday Fact is dedicated to that feeling of dread when opening one's inbox after being on holiday.
Did you know that the first recorded spam was sent in 1973?
From Wikipedia:
The earliest documented spam was a message advertising the availability of a new model of Digital Equipment Corporation computers sent to 393 recipients on ARPANET in 1978, by Gary Thuerk.The term "spam" for this practice had not yet been applied.
Commercial spam as we know it today on the other hand was first brought into attention in 1994:
The first major commercial spam incident started on March 5, 1994, when a husband and wife team of lawyers, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, began using bulk Usenet posting to advertise immigration law services. The incident was commonly termed the "Green Card spam", after the subject line of the postings. Defiant in the face of widespread condemnation, the attorneys claimed their detractors were hypocrites or "zealouts", claimed they had a free speech right to send unwanted commercial messages, and labeled their opponents "anti-commerce radicals." The couple wrote a controversial book entitled How to Make a Fortune on the Information Superhighway.
Disclaimer: all images belong to their respective copyright holders.
<< More Friday Facts
|
