Jim Gillogly

Io (moon) - Wikipedia

Most of us don't. I'm guessing it's about Io. There's a picture on its Wikipedia page taken by the Galileo probe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_(moon)

Users generally behaved well with only a shared understanding about government relevance, despite SF-Lovers and other lists. Then came the first spam message in 1978, flogging the new DEC-20 system to about 400 users including GILLOGLY at RAND-UNIX. The outrage quelled further spams for a few years.

At first light Unix was the common denominator, and email was the primary application. For jokes we could type directly to the mail server to spoof sender addresses - no verification at first. SF-lovers was one of the first and biggest of the mailing lists. We also had file transfer, also insecure.

Your "seed idea" paragraph reminded me of the colonization of cyberspace. ARPAnet was started by universities, techies, and in the first expansion companies like mine, the RAND Corporation. Real security was not built in: we didn't need much of it to talk to each other. Then came everybody else.