The origin stories of SPAM

The months of April and May could well be celebrated as the birth months of spam — those notoriously undesired messages that clog our information highways. This is because the earliest known case of spam took place on May 3, 1978 and the first such case in the Web as we know it now took place on April 12, 1994. A.S.Ganesh turns off his spam filters to give you these two tales…

Source: The Hindu