Spam Is 30 Years Old May 3, 2008 Come celebrate the birthday of the very first SPAM email

[Watermonkey 0]

According to this article 393 ARPANET employees in 1978 received the very first SPAM email from DEC. Since then we've all grown to know and love SPAM in all of its flavors. I say we should make this a International Holiday and drink a beer in rememberance of that very first little SPAMalita that started it all back when The Rockford Files was entertaining us nightly and Jimmy Carter was messing up the Middle East. I think that was Carter's term... Anyway, here's the article in its entirety in case the above link doesn't always work:

Dublin, Ireland - May 1, 2008 - Spam is celebrating its 30th birthday on 3rd May. This is the day when, in 1978, 393 Arpanet employees received the first ever spam email in history from the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). A lot has changed since then, and instead of a handful academics, today 1.3 billion people have access to the Internet and are thus unwilling recipients of spam. Still, while it is a nuisance, PC spam is fairly easy to control with spam filters and the daily tradition of deleting half our Inboxes. Unfortunately, mobile spam is of a different calibre altogether.
As Lorcan Burke, CEO of mobile security specialist AdaptiveMobile (https://www.adaptivemobile.com/) asserts:

"We are now in the same situation with mobile spam as we were with PCs ten years ago. While mobile spam has thus far not received much attention, two thirds of UK mobile users have been affected and in places like China, the average mobile user receives six to ten spam messages per day. The difference is that a mobile is a very personal device, and users are still very trusting when receiving messages and phone calls, given that numbers are not publicly listed and every user believes he has control over who has got his number."

While the mobile spam problem could seem relatively small compared to that of PC spam, the numbers tell a different story. Mobile phones are quickly outgrowing PCs in number and Gartner forecasts that there will be four billion mobiles compared to 1.3 billion PCs by 2010. According to research from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2007, more than 80 per cent of phone users worldwide have received spam on their mobile phone. And in the UK alone, two thirds of mobile users have been victims of mobile spam and phishing attacks according to a YouGov report (March 2008).

Lorcan believes that "The industry should do everything possible to protect users from spam, and to prevent it escalating in the same way as its PC equivalent. Users are concerned about mobile security and the responsibility lies with the mobile operators to protect their customers as they have the capability to monitor and control data traffic on their network".

About AdaptiveMobile:
AdaptiveMobile (https://www.adaptivemobile.com/) is the leading mobile security provider of unified customer protection for enterprises and individuals. . The company offers comprehensive proactive protection from the increasingly prominent threat of mobile viruses, malware, inappropriate content, unsolicited communications and spam at a corporate and consumer level. AdaptiveMobile's software works across all bearers, all technologies and all media.

AdaptiveMobile was founded in 2003 and boasts some of the world's largest mobile operators as customers and the leading security and telecom equipment vendors as partners. The company is headquartered in Dublin with offices in the North America, Europe, South Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

[Csshih 0]

Yes, we must all celebrate with a couple drinks. Of orange juice, for me, not at legal drinking age :lol:Pretty funny that you're a member of the spam patrol, and posting about spam.

[bishoujo 0]

Happy Birthday Spam. May you have a short life forever on lol

[the need for speed 0]

Only 30 years, Spam has got a long way to go Still though, I can't believe that they would remember the first spam email , That kinda scares me

 

Meh, Nothing that great about spam as it is Just some crap thats wastes our time( and the spammers thus the "SpamBot") lol, Anyway, sice I wasn't born then,

 

Happy Birthday Spam

May you live a prosperous short life
Edited May 2, 2008 by the need for speed (see edit history)

[Inhuman 0]

I can't wait until spam dies. THAT would be a day to celebrate.

[k4m1k4z3 0]

Celebrate Spam Email ? That's a bit odd.I agree with you Inhuman, Spam isn't good. =[

[kobra500 1]

WTF Saint Micheal Hasnt Given a post yet... thats not like him

[Watermonkey 0]

I think Mike may have started the celebration a little early... One too many rootbeers is all it takes for some people!

[Plenoptic 0]

Happy birthday to Spam! I wonder what the first ever spam message actually said and why in the world it was sent because I am sure not many people had computers back then. Kind of funny though just how much spam is spread today. I remember Spam when it was only twenty, it has grown so much since then. I think I am going to cry.

[the need for speed 0]

*hands over tissue papers* Its okay, no need to cry Yeah, Is there any link that shows the first spam message?Beside, We will mourn over Spams death, not celebrate You know why, Computers will be going down with it.Spam is a chronic illness for the computer It will go away when....The computer does...

[Watermonkey 0]

You asked for it, HERE IT IS. The link to the very first SPAM that Saint Michael took for his very own, even though he wasn't born yet, and evolved to incorporate in to everything he writes today. Hope this made your day!

[sanbkk 0]

Its the same day with a friend of mine so.........happy birthday to both ..

[Forbez 0]

Hooray for spam! Three cheers! Happy birthday Spam.

[daftpunk 0]

Happy Birthday spam i hope you live very very long,you have caused havoic to many millions :)i experience spam every day i get almost around 200 spam emails a day i usually add the google mail spam filter to block them but they just seem to be coming gotta love spam!

Edited September 14, 2008 by daftpunk (see edit history)

[TheDisturbedOne 1]

Even though this is about 6 months old, I must say that spam has advanced a lot, and it has become easier and easier to spam people.I, myself have a spam email set up, and over 6 months, I have 28,000 emails in it. I sort of collect it