HAPPY SPAMDAY

The date: May 3, 1978. The culprit: Gary Thuerk, a marketer for the old Digital Equipment Corporation. His crime: Sending a sales e-mail to 393 users on Arpanet (then a U.S. government computer network and the predecessor of today’s Internet). Little did Thuerk know that he’d just become the world’s first spammer.

Celebrate/commemorate by watching Monty Python’s “Spam” sketch, along with lots of FOD hits for spam.

Maybe visit a Spam bank?