Code Curiosities
The Typo That Launched a Thousand Spam Folders
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In 1978, a man named Gary Thuerk sent an unsolicited promotional email to 393 people on ARPANET — and the internet has never quite forgiven him for it. But the real story isn't about one overeager marketer; it's about the surprisingly fragile, handshake-based system of trust that early internet pioneers assumed would just... work, and what we lost when it didn't. Turns out the reason your mom's…