1978 - The first e-mail spam of history was sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

1978年的今天，史上首封垃圾电子邮件是由美国的DEC公司的一名市场销售代表，向ARPANET网络上每一个地址发送的。

背景资料：

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) developed by ARPA of the U.S. Department of Defense was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the progenitor of the global Internet.

ARPANET是高级搜索项目代理网络的缩写，由美国国防部下属的ARPA开发，是世界上第一个可操作信息包交换网络，也是今日全球互联网的祖先。