You Must Know When Spam Mails First Time

You'll often get spam in your email. This marketing strategy can be very annoying sometimes. Do you know when the first spam email sent?

World's first spam email sent 33 years ago, precisely on May 3, 1978. Marketing advertising strategy was sent to 600 emails of people in government and university computer networks.

At that time, the marketing manager Gary Thuerk of Digital Equipment Corporation wanted to publicize the open house in Los Angeles and San Mateo, California.

The show aims to introduce the latest computer and Thuerk company hopes to attract people to the new technology.


Through the 600 people in the invitation list (mostly computer scientists), Thuerk decided to send an email all in one go instead of sending invitations one by one individually.

For that, he uses the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPAnet), an operational packet switching network on the internet first official.

The recipients of this email to respond negatively to this invitation. But interestingly, thanks to this email, Thuerk companies able to sell some computers. That's when the first spammers also born.

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