Spam's 30th Anniversary

[droginator]

Apparently, it's been 30 years since the first spam email.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/18084/spam-turning-30-this-month-no-gifts-please/

The date: May 3, 1978. The culprit: Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the old Digital Equipment Corporation. His crime: Sending a sales e-mail to 393 users on Arpanet (then a U.S. government computer network and the predecessor of today's Internet). Little did Thuerk know that he'd just become the world's first spammer.

the world's first spam (presented in its original all-caps format):

Mail-from: DEC-MARLBORO rcvd at 3-May-78 0955-PDT
Date:  1 May 1978 1233-EDT
From: THUERK at DEC-MARLBORO
Subject: ADRIAN@SRI-KL

DIGITAL WILL BE GIVING A PRODUCT PRESENTATION OF THE NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY; THE DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060, AND 2060T.  THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY OF COMPUTERS HAS EVOLVED FROM THE TENEX OPERATING SYSTEM AND THE DECSYSTEM-10 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE.  BOTH THE DECSYSTEM-2060T AND 2020T OFFER FULL ARPANET SUPPORT UNDER THE TOPS-20 OPERATING SYSTEM. THE DECSYSTEM-2060 IS AN UPWARD EXTENSION OF THE CURRENT DECSYSTEM 2040 AND 2050 FAMILY. THE DECSYSTEM-2020 IS A NEW LOW END MEMBER OF THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY AND FULLY SOFTWARE COMPATIBLE WITH ALL OF THE OTHER DECSYSTEM-20 MODELS.

WE INVITE YOU TO COME SEE THE 2020 AND HEAR ABOUT THE DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY AT THE TWO PRODUCT PRESENTATIONS WE WILL BE GIVING IN CALIFORNIA THIS MONTH.  THE LOCATIONS WILL BE:

               TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1978 - 2 PM
                   HYATT HOUSE (NEAR THE L.A. AIRPORT)
                   LOS ANGELES, CA

               THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1978 - 2 PM
                   DUNFEY'S ROYAL COACH
                   SAN MATEO, CA
                   (4 MILES SOUTH OF S.F. AIRPORT AT BAYSHORE, RT 101 AND RT 92)

A 2020 WILL BE THERE FOR YOU TO VIEW. ALSO TERMINALS ON-LINE TO OTHER DECSYSTEM-20 SYSTEMS THROUGH THE ARPANET. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT THE NEAREST DEC OFFICE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXCITING DECSYSTEM-20 FAMILY.

[Esmeralda]

long live spam

[SexualBubblegumX]

I totally can't wait till spam turns 100.... Oh shit I'll be dead by then.

[:)]

Hey, while your reading this, check out my webpage.

[SexualBubblegumX]

OMG HAX!

[Forty]

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Oh btw, happy birthday spam

[SexualBubblegumX]

ACK! Too many banana!

[Kokowam]

SPAM

[SexualBubblegumX]

How about some spam and eggs?

[Kefka]

I totally can't wait till spam turns 100.... Oh shit I'll be dead by then.

what about 50 or 75? Or mid-life crisis!

[SexualBubblegumX]

I plan on dying at 70.

[Esmeralda]

Plan A hardly ever works

Plan C has a 79% of working so maybe you'll live a shorter life than you thought.

[SexualBubblegumX]

I'm pretty sure I can't mess this plan up.

[Forty]

Kill yourself the week before your 70th birthday, then you would be an overachiever.

[SexualBubblegumX]

Naw, Imma do it when i'm 70. I've put enough thought into this. Also I don't really think it's suicide since other people will kill me.