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NeonWizard
April 12th, 2004, 12:54 PM
On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet.

Hoping to drum up some business, Laurence Canter dashed off a Perl script that flooded online message boards with an advertisement pitching the legal services of Canter & Siegel, the law firm he ran with his then wife, Martha Siegel.

Read Article (http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5189340.html?tag=nefd.lede)

HandsOff
April 17th, 2004, 04:21 AM
-{ Quote: "On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet.

Hoping to drum up some business, Laurence Canter dashed off a Perl script that flooded online message boards with an advertisement pitching the legal services of Canter & Siegel, the law firm he ran with his then wife, Martha Siegel.

Read Article (http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5189340.html?tag=nefd.lede)" }-

Gosh, I guess being a lawyer married to a lawyer just wasn't bad enough!

- HandsOff