First Massive Commercial Spam Posted

Date: April 12, 1994 • Location: Washington, United States

Husband-and-wife law partners Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel posted the first massive commercial spam on Usenet.

Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel were partners and spouses in a firm of lawyers who committed the first massive commercial Usenet spamming on April 12, 1994. They were not the first Usenet spammers, but some consider them pioneers in the modern global field of ad spamming.