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That’s right, 21 years ago (yesterday), is more or less when Spam Resource first hit teh interwebs. I invite you to celebrate with a beverage of your choice. Pictured: Murray is enjoying a Best Patio Pils by 18th Street Brewery on the patio at Jarvis Square Tavern, our favorite bar here in Chicago. (And by the way, Chicago, coincidentally, is not quite the hellhole that some dumb guy portrayed it as recently.)

I’m not 100% sure of the exact day that I first posted to this blog, but based on what I can find in my own notes and archives, I probably published my first post on August 26, 2001. So, I’m going to call that the birthdate of Spam Resource, and that means that today is the twentieth anniversary of Spam Resource.(Spam Resource circa 2001-2003)Wow, it’s been a heck of a ride. I guess that time flies when you’re … sitting still, quietly blogging about spam and email.Though Blogger did technically exist in 2001, Spam Resource wasn’t moved to the Blogger platform until 2006. Prior to that move, it was all hand-coded HTML flat files with lots of tables. For a period, it was even an online software store — my employer at the time held a contest to try to drive extra online software sales — and I was one of the…