Started by Ayodele Bankole (@ayo_archives) ·
why junk email is called spam
The name is from the Monty Python sketch where Vikings drown out everything by singing 'spam' over and over. The first one was a DEC ad in 1978, and the first giant Usenet one was two lawyers advertising green card lottery services in 1994.
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- Why is it called spam?
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- Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel
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- “why is junk email called spam” (google.com)
- Spam (Monty Python sketch) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Spamming (en.wikipedia.org)
- History of email spam (en.wikipedia.org)
may 1978, a DEC marketer emailed around 400 ARPANET users about a product demo. people were furious
- Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel (en.wikipedia.org)
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