happy birthday, SPAM

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A little anniversary that may have passed you by:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/03/05/spams_tenth_birthday_today.html

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

So, why is it called "spam," anyway? Is it an acronym for something?

― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 6 March 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I highly enjoy their new tagline....

"CRAZY TASTY!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Scene from my weekend home:

My mom: "Hey, guess which state eats the most Spam?"
Me: "Oh easy, Hawaii"
Mom, disappointedly: "Oh, you knew."

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 6 March 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's a synthesis of two words, "spurious ham" or something like.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Sunday, 7 March 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, that explains the canned meat-like substance. But why was that applied to junk email?

― Prude (Prude), Sunday, 7 March 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The odd thing about that article is that it's the tenth anniversary neither of spam as a concept nor spam as a word for that concept -- it's the tenth anniversary of commercial spam on Usenet, which hardly anyone even uses anymore. But any excuse for a parade.

I'm pretty sure "spam" in this context is derived from the Monty Python skit ("in which the chanting of the word 'spam' overrides the other dialogue," says Merriam-Webster), and this article agrees, and mentions a bunch of early spam incidents and some etymology and etc.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 7 March 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/hormel-spam-pig-brains-disease

https://motherjones.com/files/images/head-cases-400.gif

Yiiiiikes

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 18:27 (fourteen years ago)

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