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- Just Bill is a single guy from The Antipodes of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
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Jacob Boehme relates that Lucifer was once asked why God so hated him, enough to cast down from heaven this greatest of angels; to which the Devil replied, 'I wished to be an author.'
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Spam is 30 years old!
(And it smells like it, too!)
Thirty years ago next week, Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer
firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US
government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the
first spam email ever.
That commercial message, sent on 3 May 1978, drew a swift and negative reaction.
Recipients complained directly to Thuerk, who had made no attempt to hide his
identity, and DEC was reprimanded by the Arpanet administrators.
Nevertheless, the email was a portent of things to come. Today, spam makes up 80
to 90% of all emails sent - around 120 billion messages per day - and is a multi-billion
dollar industry.
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