The First Mass Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, i.e. Spam (opens in new tab)

May 3, 1978 Gary Thuerk, a marketing representative for Digital Equipment Corporation, sends out an e-mail promoting an open house for the company’s latest computer systems to 393 recipients on the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet. While this number sounds small by today’s standards, this was all the ARPANET users on the west… The First Mass Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, i.e. Spam is original content of This Day in Tech History.