Spamming of Usenet newsgroups actually pre-dates e-mail spam . The first widely recognized Usenet spam ( though not the most famous ) was posted on 18 January 1994 by Clarence L. Thomas IV , a sysadmin at Andrews University . Entitled " Global Alert for All : Jesus is Coming Soon " , it was a fundamentalist religious tract claiming that " this world 's history is coming to a climax . " The newsgroup posting bot Serdar Argic also appeared in early 1994 , posting tens of thousands of messages to various newsgroups , consisting of identical copies of a political screed relating to the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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