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SPAM

Day 3,172, 14:26 • Published in Greece Greece

• by TigerII91

SPAM

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Jimkats1 Day 3,172, 16:44

Did you know that the word spam is derived by the ham SPAM?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Spam_can.png

The reason, is that this speicfic ham was been emailed to everyone repeatdly at the first ever Intranet (that is before Internet) and even though it was annoying, it got its sales up.
I don't have a link right now for that info, but it's from many IT pros.

Sakourtele Day 3,173, 04:41

Actually Spam as a term for repeated annoying stuff (verbal, optical or otherwise) comes from the notorious Monty Python gag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eYSuPKP3Y

Jimkats1 Day 3,173, 04:48

Which came as a result of the SPAM ham.