Last but not least: The plague for your birthday

 
The internet plague of spam turned 30 at the beginning of May this year. A good reason to wish it the plague, or rather a virus and the plague on its perpetrators, from the bottom of our hearts on its birthday. Who wants to spend years watching garbage like good mix of fake brand watches & jewelry get an offing to add some more inches to your male shaft virility enhancement lots of bling in little time greater pleasure for you, but let's get a brief overview. Spam first appeared in the USA in 1978. A marketing manager at the IT company DEC - may he come down with the bubonic plague - wrote to 400 potential customers to advertise a mini-computer. This was still on the Internet predecessor Arpanet, the WWW did not yet exist.
In the last 30 years and with the advent of the Internet, the problem has really become a big one (the perpetrators' hands may bleed). No less than four out of five emails received are now spam. Google estimates that the number of unwanted emails has quadrupled in the last four years - from 20 to 80 percent of the total volume. Nevertheless, today's spam filters manage to block around 99 percent of advertising waste.
The methods of the "spammers" - may they jump back in time to the year 1349 - have also become more sophisticated. While the 400 e-mails in 1978 were at most a nuisance, today attempts are also made to obtain account numbers and bank details (phishing) in order to empty accounts. Whole websites can also be paralyzed with a spam attack. This is what happened in Estonia last year, when internet banks were unavailable for several days and had to accept losses running into millions.
Incidentally, the name Spam goes back to a sketch by the comedy troupe Monty Python. A pushy waiter tries to sell a customer the canned meat "Spiced Ham" by any means necessary. No matter what the woman orders, a chorus of Vikings behind her warbles the refrain "Spam, Spam, Spam". You'd wish cholera on them.