5.3
Happy Birthday, SPAM
Mark your calendars. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the first SPAM message. It went out to 393 recipients. Years later, 61 billion SPAM messages were sent per day in October 2006. Feel free to send this out to thousands of your closest friends.
11.28
FCC, Tear Down This Wall
As has been said before, living in an apartment complex that limits one’s choice of internet and TV providers is like living behind a communications Berlin Wall. Now I’m sure this issue will be bogged down in the courts for awhile but at the end of October the FCC raised a small flag of hope for those of us behind the media iron curtain.
