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Wasn't that always true though? The earliest internet I knew was through AOL cd's, but it still seems like the internet as we know it was born of cancerous (mostly pornographic) ads.



The first spam campaign that looked like the spam we know and love today way a "green card lottery[1]" campaign on Usenet by a couple of lawyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...




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