Jul 02 2008
The First Possible Email Spam Message
I found this article today and thought I would share it. I haven’t checked to see if this is in fact the first one, but his research looks pretty good and gives you a good idea of how this whole email spam thing started:
Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978
Intro line says:
“Possibly the first spam ever was a message from a DEC marketing rep to every Arpanet address on the west coast, or at least the attempt at that.”
