We’re growing ever-closer to an Internet that’s free of spam

Spam was around well before the Internet, but it’s on the Internet that spammers were able to annoy people on a level that had never been seen before. During the early days of what we now know as the modern Internet, spammers were able to use the power of botnets to send billions of spam messages every day. However, both law enforcement and tech companies have been working to reduce the amount of spam on the Internet these past few years, and the results of those efforts are really starting to show.