Daily Archives: May 2, 2016

May 2, 2000

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 2000 precision GPS became available to the public and Garmin and Tom-Tom soon became commonplace in most peoples’ cars in the Western Civilization. Car map sales have plummeted and most people born after 2000 can no longer fold a map correctly, much less read it. The same thing happened … Continue reading

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May 3, 1978

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com in 1978 the first spam e-mail was sent by Digital Equipment Corporation salesman Gary Thuerk to all the 400 unsuspecting users of the ARPANET. To this day, like a true saleman (asshole), Gary Thuerk doesn’t think he did anything wrong by sending an unsolicited electronic sales solicitation to people who … Continue reading

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