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(@cookirini)
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SPAM!!!!11111(SENDMONEYTONIGERIAPLZ)

The date: May 3, 1978. The culprit: Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the old Digital Equipment Corporation. His crime: Sending a sales e-mail to 393 users on Arpanet (then a U.S. government computer network and the predecessor of today's Internet). Little did Thuerk know that he'd just become the world's first spammer.

That first piece of junk e-mail (which wasn't called "spam" until about 15 years later) has been memorialized over at Brad Templeton's Web site (Templeton is a Net pioneer, the creator of the legendary rec.humor.funny Usenet group, and chairman of the Eletronic Frontier Foundation), along with a thread of outraged replies.

That's right! CLICK HERE TO GET A FOURTEEN-INCH LONG-*pelted*

 
(@hukos)
Posts: 1986
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XD

I thought you were saying it was going to be your 30th. <_<<br />
So uh, I don't know whether to congratulate the guy or not. >_>

 
(@cookirini)
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Heheh....No, I am not yet 30.

 
(@sailor-unicron)
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I thought it was about you at first, too.

So he's the one responsible for all the slag I get in my email.

 
(@hukos)
Posts: 1986
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All of my spam gets redirected into the spam folder before I even look at it.

 
(@gt-koopa)
Posts: 2417
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You got me Cooki. Here! Have something I made over a year ago but never posted.
Was supposed to go with this, but it was scrapped because I couldn't find decent horn players.

I feel ashamed to deprive you all of the awesome.

 
(@psxphile_1722027877)
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COOKI-ROLLED

Heheh....No, I am not yet 30.

Maybe you're not...

 
(@ultra-sonic-007)
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I suppose it helps that I know that Cookie's just a few years older than me that my 'Hmm' alarm went off.

Thought it would be something Sailor Moon-related though. o.o

 
(@chibibecca_1722585688)
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*has just hit 25, does a victory lap around the forum!* hurrah, spam is 5 years older then me!

 
(@dreamer-of-nights)
Posts: 2354
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COOKI-ROLLED

Heheh....No, I am not yet 30.

Maybe you're not...

Get your via... ** shot to death **

 
(@cookirini)
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GT....Have my babies. 😀

 
(@shifty)
Posts: 1058
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Cooki, I thought it was your 30th birthday too! And I've known you for 7 years. :O

"wether we try to avoide it or not we all ate insects."-sonicsfan1991

 
(@darkest-light)
Posts: 1376
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o.O

Spam is older than me by only 5 years? That's really kinda scary actually.

 
(@tails2k-sonichqcommunity)
Posts: 96
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOKIR-what?

Oh... I've been had....

Thought 30 didn't sound right....

~T2K

 
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