The Father of Spam & How It All Started Interview

Gary Thuerk, Farther of Email Marketing In this historic interview Lon Safko, the author of  the bestselling books  “The Social Media Bible” & “The Fusion Marketing Bible”, speaks with Gary Thuerk.  Don’t know who Gary is?  He’s he guy that sent the very first “Spam” email message.  An “unsolicited Commercial Email Message”, back in 1978!  Gary while working with DEC Computer sent the very first Spam to 400 of the government contractors then associated with APRANet, the very beginning of the Internet and eMail.  Listen to Gary talk about how the Cold War drove the Internet,  how sending out his one email shut down the servers at the University of Utah, and how to this day, Gary gets “hate mail” to this day for creating Spam.  (and, Spam!) Read Email View Video Play Podcast Download Transcript  The post The Father of Spam & How It All Started Interview first appeared on The Social Media Bible.