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Letters by Burk

The Unlikely Rise of the Newsletter Platform That’s Taking Over the Internet

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Burk
May 12, 2023
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The first ever email blast was sent out in 1978 by a guy named Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, to about 400 Arpanet advertising machines. This one email blast generated $13 million in sales, according to Brafton.

As you can tell, newsletters were a big deal right from the get-go.

Fast forward 39 years, and a small email-…

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