Today I Found Out
How the Word SPAM came to mean Junk Message (2016x22)
: 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.
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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