Flashback: World's First Spam

Digg today links to the text of an email message that entered the history as the first official spam. According to an earlier BBC story, on May 3, 1978, "a marketing executive at Digital Equipment Corporation, a leading maker of minicomputers, decided to send all West Coast Arpanet users a message about an open day that would show off its new range of machines."
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