{"id":74,"date":"2008-05-05T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-05-04T21:21:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T04:21:30","slug":"spam-turns-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Spam Turns 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long, long ago, a brave and enterprising guy took a bold step into cyberspace and irritated a lot of people. He was a pioneer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThirty years ago this past Saturday, May 3 1978, the first e-mail spam message was sent. An e-mail was sent from engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Thuerk\" target=\"wiki\">Gary Thuerk<\/a> to, well, just about everyone on the old ARPANET (precursor to the Internet). The message touted a new line of computer hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Folks receiving the message were unhappy. They responded loudly and negatively to the overt commercial use of what was intended to be a free forum for exchange of ideas and information. How dare he! And we&#8217;re talking someone who was pushing computer stuff, not v1@gr@ or c1@l1s.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line, someone referred to the unwanted e-mail as <em>spam<\/em>. The source was a Monty Python sketch you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE\" target=\"youtube\">view here<\/a>. After enjoying the sketch you can determine for yourself why something unwanted and evil can be called <em>spam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, over 95 percent of all e-mail \u2014 that billions of messages daily worldwide \u2014 is spam, junk, or unwanted. A great majority of the time spent by systems engineers is taken filtering out and eliminating that unwanted e-mail. Indeed, if you&#8217;ve noticed that the amount of spam you receive in your e-mail inbox has dropped, it&#8217;s because of a massive push by programmers to eliminate the junk. Hats off to those guys and gals.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/fun\/dang\/t1\/spamfilter.jpg' alt='My Homegrown Spam Filter' class='aligncenter' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long, long ago, a brave and enterprising guy took a bold step into cyberspace and irritated a lot of people. He was a pioneer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}