Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...
The first message on the internet was meant to be "login". However, the system crashed after the first two letters were sent.
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This is the first known spam e-mail, from 1978. It was sent by Gary Thuerk, a Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) employee, to everyone on the ARPANET, predecessor of the Internet. ARPANET, which stood for ...