Ignore non-electronic spam, such as junk postal mail. We believe the first computer-based spam was sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketeer at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1978. It described a sales presentation promoting Digital’s DEC 2020 computer, and was sent to around 400 people on the ARPAnet, precursor of the internet. The actual message is […]... read more »
Museum Galleries
- Enterprise Vault: The KVS Years, 2000-2004
- Early Days of Corporate Email: Selling the Idea
- Memories of ALL-in-1: Tony Redmond Recalls
- Early Days of Corporate Email: Some Personal Observations
- Enterprise Vault: The Early Days, 1997-2000
- Quick History of ALL-IN-1
- Origin of Emoticons
- Google+ Is Major Competition for Facebook
- Moving to Hosted Exchange: Plan for Hiccups
- Employees Drive Adoption of Instant Messaging, Skype and Unified Communications in the Enterprise
- The Technical Case: Why XMPP Is Better Than SIP/SIMPLE for Instant Messaging
- Using Instant Messaging and Chat Rooms Safely
- SMS makes way for instant messaging
- Debate: XMPP Won’t Bring Universal IM
- Exchange 12 Will Be 64-Bit Only (2005)
- Email Security Appliances Are Popular … for Now (2005)
- Mobile Phone Viruses a Theoretical Threat, but People Are Cynical (2005)
- Jury Still Out on CAN-SPAM: Case for the Defense (2005)
- Jury Still Out on CAN-SPAM: Case for the Prosecution (2005)
- Virtual Directories and Metadirectories Will Coexist (2005)
- Notes on Exhibitors at Exchange Connections Conference (2005)
- The Most Important Value Adds in a Directory (2005)
- Who Puts a Lot of Information in Directories? (2005)
- The Benefits of LDAP/X.500 Directories (2005)
- H.323 Development Dying/Dead (2005)
- For Instant Messaging and Presence Services Federation and Standards are Complementary (2005)
- The Notes Roadmap – IBM’s strategy is crystal clear (2005)
- Instant Messaging to Usurp SMS on Mobile Phones (2005)
- Microsoft’s Hosted Exchange Should Do Well (2005)
- How Long is the Virus Window of Vulnerability? (2005)
- What will become of our digital legacies? (2004)
- MOOL: What it is and what it isn’t (2004)
- Unforeseen consequences of fighting spam (2004)
- Who’s buying anti-spam? (2004)
- SMS Spam–A Sample (2004)
- Malware by IM An Emerging Threat (2004)
- Mobile messaging important enough for MS to “sleep with the enemy”
- Does ICQ mail suggest IM and Email coming together? (2004)