The First Piece of Spam
Spam is one of those things that seems to have been with the internet since the beginning. But, in fact, it took a full seven years after the advent of email communication for the first spam email to be sent and received.
That spam email was sent on May 3, 1978. At the time, there were actually only a few hundred people who were using the internet. And on that day, every single one of those people received an unsolicited message inviting them to a pair of tech presentations held in Los Angeles and San Mateo, California.