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+-   Spam reaches 30 years old on Friday April 25 2008, @09:12AM holy_calamity

Submitted by holy_calamity on Friday April 25 2008, @09:12AM
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holy_calamity writes "New Scientist commemorates spam's 30th anniversary, actually next week. 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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