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Happy Spamiversary! Spam Reaches 30
This April 2008 feature surveys the history of Internet spam starting 30 years ago when "a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam email ever." Includes many related links. From New Scientist magazine.
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13777-happy-spamiversary-spam-reaches-30.html

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