Spam pertama dikirimkan tepat 30 tahun yang lalu.

It was 3 May, 1978. Gary Thuerk, sales rep at the TOPS-20 operating system had support for ARPAnet built-in. Thuerk, however, did not feel like sending 600 individual email messages to all the people on the ARPAnet, so he had a brainwave: why not send the same message to all of them? At once?

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Dan sekarang pada usia 30 tahun SPAM semakin menjadi..