Spam is THIRTY YEARS OLD!!!

Hard to believe that Spam as we all know, and loathe today actually originated 30 years ago on May 2 1978, and was sent to 393 users of ARPANET by someone from computing pioneers DEC.
Reading the archived "first spam" message and it's responses is actually very interesting...
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