Gary Thuerk

Back in 1978, when the Internet was called Arpanet, Gary Thuerk, who worked as a Marketing Manager at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), sent out the first spam e-mail inviting techies to a demonstration of DEC's new computer, the Decsystem-20. The CC list of that e-mail took up so much room that it spilled into the message's body. The Guiness Book of Records refers to Gary Thuerk as the 'Father Of Spam'.