Thousands of people connected to the ARPAnet, and most of the scientists. Gary Thuerk, father of spam the world. (blogymate.com)

VIVAnews -Gary Thuerk, Marketing Manager of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), an American company, on 3 May 1978 wanted to broadcast the news around the sales of his latest Prime computer company in Los Angeles and San Mateo, California.

Top Knowledge Carl Gartley, owner of the e-mail account, he was sent on loan to Thuerk's spam first to the computer networks of universities and public institutions, known as ARPAnet, which was the ancestor of the internet network.

Then, there are thousands of people connected to the ARPAnet, and most of them are computer scientists.

Thuerk itself wants to send email invitations to all 400 members in the field of the ARPAnet on the West Coast United States live.

However, instead of sending an email to each Member of the one by one, as is standard procedure when he decided to send an e-mail to the rest of the 400 people.

Sontak, Thuerk taken ignite emotions in scientist community network ARPAnet. However, the efforts of Thuerk bloom, a number of victims that he sends a ' spam first around the world ' was finally buy product sold his company. In fact, accessible from the computer world, may 6, 2011, sales of spam that the value of 13 to 14 million dollars achieved.

"' Crimes that laid down in a CBC television network impressions in Thuerk titled" SPAM: the documentary. "Moreover, the ' innovation ' of Thuerk also included in the Guinness World Records as the father of spammers.

When he did what he had done when it, unaware that his actions Thuerk is an action that changed the world of computers, especially business. As we know, is attributable to the manner of Thuerk, according to data from Symantec, is about 80 percent of around the world today sent e-mail spam email.

However, in an interview, Thuerk claimed that the current state is not guilty. "You cannot blame Wright Brothers (inventors of airplane, red) due to the plane crash that happened today," he said.