Before 1994 usenet had trolls but what we recognize as spam today was all but unheard of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email_spam https://en.wikipe

Before 1994 usenet had trolls but what we recognize as spam today was all but unheard of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email_spam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email_spam In my .edu world the most annoying part of email was “chain mail” in which each recipient was threatened with bad luck or similar if they didn’t forward it on to three others. Email loops caused by .forward files were fun too.