U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for May 19: Sour Notes

USA Profile Username: jon@newsinnovations.com / edit profile U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for May 19: Sour Notes PR Newswire WASHINGTON, May 19, 2016 WASHINGTON, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: SOUR NOTES Profile America — Thursday, May 19th. Spam, the pork product in a can, debuted in 1937, and World War II spread its fame, such as it is, around the globe. Spam, the unsolicited email message, debuted this month in 1978, and the World Wide Web has spread its infamy everywhere. The first cyberspam was an invitation to a computer system demonstration sent to the few existing email addresses over ARPANET, the Internet's precursor. Almost 16 years later, commercial spam first coursed through the worldwide web. In April 1994, a pair of Arizona lawyers advertised their immigration assistance services to thousands of Usenet groups. The negative blowback crashed the hosting ISP servers. At the time, only about a quarter of U.S. households had personal computers. Now, over 85 percent are so equipped, and 80 percent access the Internet. Profile America is beginning its 20th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau. Sources: Robertson's Book of Firsts, pages 249-251 Spam luncheon meat story: http://www.eater.com/2014/7/9/6191681/a-brief-history-of-spam-an-american-meat-icon  First WWW spam/accessed 3/30/2016: http://www.wired.com/1999/04/the-spam-that-started-it-all/  Home computer timeline/page 2: https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-569.pdf  Computer and internet usage: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2016/comm/digital_nation.html Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).  Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO   SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau CONTACT: Rick Reed, 301-763-2812; or e-mail: Web Site: http://www.census.gov Follow Us To change the settings for your profile(s) or email delivery, go to https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com/profile/?action=editProfile and select the profile you would like to edit. You can select the industries, subjects, languages, geographical areas, companies, delivery options and delivery frequencies of your choice. In addition to current press releases, you can also find archived news, corporate information, photos, tradeshow news and much more on the PR Newswire for Journalists website: https://prnmedia.prnewswire.com To contact us, email: mediasite@prnewswire.com Please do not reply to this email; this is an automatically generated message. Copyright © PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. A UBM plc company. Our mailing address is: 350 Hudson Street, Suite 300 New York, NY 10014-4504