Internet Defense Technology

While nothing is perfect, I personally feel and have to say that the USA is still the best country around. The fact that we can say it isn’t perfect and work for change is something we should never take for granted.

While some of our freedoms do result in annoyances (email spam and some strange perverted use of freedom of speech) they are still great to behold.

Be careful what you do and where you click over the holidays, but most important have some fun and celebrate the birth of this great country.

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.”