Free Software Magazine: The Internet’s Plague: Spam

“When the internet became a ‘thing’ for the masses, it was
around 1995. Well, it was a little earlier for some, and later for
some others, but I think 1995 is a pretty good point of
reference.

“At the time, we all thought the internet could be a utopia, a
place where nothing really bad could happen because we were all
connected to one another–almost literally…”

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