03/05/1978 Spam is sent for the first time
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Raymond Tomlinson - the inventor of email
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The History of SPAM
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Junk Mail - Cyanide & Happiness Shorts
The first known email spam was sent in 1978 to several hundred users on ARPANET. It was an advertisement for a presentation by the Digital Equipment Corporation sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer of theirs. The reaction to it was almost universally negative, and for a long time there were no further instances.
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Essentials
Overview
Spam techniques
Legal countermeasures
Deception and fraud
Theft of service
Statistics and estimates
Anti-spam techniques
Methods of spammers
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