Today I Found Out

How the Word SPAM came to mean Junk Message (2016x22)

Date de diffusion: Jan 29, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFou→“fake meat”, thus spam messages are “fake messages”, this potential origin, while plausible enough on the surface, turns out to be not correct at all. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/09/how-the-word-spam-came-to-mean-junk-message/ Sources: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=spam http://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic) http://www.spamlaws.com/spam-stats.html http://www.rackspace.com/apps/blog/2010/03/email_spam_facts/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnet_Relay