May 3, 1978: The First Spam Email is sent to 400 People on ARPAnet

(email-museum.com)

posted by Justintoxicated on HistoryToday

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[–] PMYA 3 points (+3|-0)

And it was in all caps.

Fuck that guy.

[–] xyzzy 1 points (+1|-0)

And it was in all caps.

A DEC spammer in 1978 might have used a 6 bit character encoding with only capital letters. Must have been hard times.

[–] PMYA 2 points (+2|-0)

Jesus, thats only one step above sending Viagra spam in morse code.

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