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The First Email & Spam Messages Were Sent More Than 35 Years Ago

American programmer Ray Tomlinson sent the very first email ever sent to himself in 1971. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar," he wrote. ARPANET sent the first spam email to 393 people in 1978. 

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