Monday, May 5, 2003
Spam Celebrates Silver Jubilee
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 02:13 PM
"One of the most annoying aspects of the internet, spam, is 25 years old this weekend. Net historians have trawled records and found that the first junk e-mail message hawking a company or its wares was sent back in 1978. Coincidentally, the first commercial spam sent to Usenet discussion groups was sent a little over 10 years ago. Now spam is thought to account for up to 40% of all e-mail messages sent across the net and many industry groups, companies and technologists are uniting to fight the flood."
Since we've been discussing the impact of email spam on mobile devices, I thought this article was an appropriate follow-up for those interested in the history of spam. Read it and weep...literally. :cry:
Since we've been discussing the impact of email spam on mobile devices, I thought this article was an appropriate follow-up for those interested in the history of spam. Read it and weep...literally. :cry:
