Got Spam? Thank Gary Thuerk
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Who? Gary Thuerk. Known as the Father of Spam. In 1978, when the Internet was still Arpanet, he sent an email to 400 people, inviting West Coast techies to a demonstration of Digital Equipment Corporation’s new Decsystem-20 computer. In an eSecurityPlanet.com article entitled “Father of Spam Speaks Out on His Legacy,” Gary Thuerk, now in sales at Hewlett-Packard Co., gives the details on the first use of unsolicited email. It’s a fascinating and enlightening interview; a must-read for Internet history buffs.
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Janine Schneider
June 29th, 2009
at 10:01am
can’t we turn back the wheels of time and beat up all those nice “inventors” of shit?