Posts on ‘December 10th, 2008’

The First Spam Email Ever!

On May 3, 1978, Gary Thuerk made Internet history by doing something that has never been done over the Internet: send a spam email.
Thuerk worked as a sales and marketing representative for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a company that specializes in the manufacturing of minicomputers. DEC computers are actually considered by some computer experts as [...]

Replying to Emails Using Gmail Vacation Responder

For many people, managing emails every single day is difficult. Surely, you need some time away from the virtual world so you won’t get left out in the real world. Because you cannot respond to all incoming emails when you are on vacation, you can just use the Vacation Responder feature on your Gmail account [...]