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Gary Thuerk : #Spam email is now 40 years old

Posted by DomainGang on May 7, 2018, at 5:40 pm

On May 1st, 1978, Gary Thuerk sent out the first spam email. Thuerk was a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corp., who sent the first unsolicited mass email to roughly 400 customers on the Arpanet, predecessor to the Internet. The enterprising marketing guru was hoping to get attention for DEC’s new VAX super computers. And […]

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