Dredged from combing the junk filter folder is evidence that shows some folks have been spamming since 1938, which would be long before Al Gore’s father handed down that Internet idea to his boy:

Wow, that old spam sure smells bad! It’s a good thing Thunderbird can spot it from a mile high.
Maybe it’s spam from the future.
Now that is scary. I think I’ll take the blue pill.
However, it date sorted crhonologically to the bottom of the inbox.. ir could even be 1838…