First spam sent in bulk

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3 May, 1978

A marketing representative of Digital Equipment Corporation sent the first unsolicited bulk email – spam message – on 3rd May 1978. The message was sent to every ARPANET address on the US west coast. The ARPANET was the predecessor of the Internet.