Advertising & Marketing · Recorded milestone
Spam email
Recorded year1978
Gary Thuerk of DEC emails an ad for new computers to about 400 ARPANET users at once, the first spam.
Explore this milestone on the interactive mapBuilt on
- Network emailRecorded · 1971enables
Led to
No connections of this kind are recorded.
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.