The word SPAM is short for Spiced Ham. SPAM is a brand of canned meat. How come the name used to refer to the canned meat e-mail is stored?
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In the 1970s in the BBC comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch show called Spam . Sketch set in a cafe with a branded canned meat SPAM as an option in the menu. In
the sketch, when the waiter read SPAM on the menu, there was a
background song called by the Norsemen, "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, lovely
SPAM! Wonderful SPAM! "
It was, it was predictable what the words could mean like now?
In 1980, the term is used in the newsletter online and in the Multi-User Dungeon (MUD), a virtual space that contains a lot of people. When that person could be repeating the word "Spam", imitating the sketch Monty Python . People on the chat room link or in the early AOL, an excerpt from a sketch on the BBC that often fills the screen.
Spam was in the form of "ASCII art", one result is an image made of numbers, letters and other characters. ASCII pictures of it can fill the screen. People in a chat room often use ASCII image to "expel" the newcomer, so chat the old members can be continued. ASCII images are also often used for the war in the chat room. First, communities are often attacked the Star Wars Star Trek community chat room with picture-ASCII and vice versa. Successful attack when the people who attacked away from the chat room. These attacks were once famous also by the term "flood" ( flooding ) or "litter" ( trashing ).
In 1993, an experimental software for releasing dozens of messages to the newsgroup news.admin.policy. In
1998, the Oxford Dictionary definition of spam add to the "message
without meaning or unworthy to be sent on the Internet on a number of newsgroups or users. "
