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How Did the Term SPAM Originate in I.T.?

Search-Engines-Web.com [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, August 19, 2007
16 years ago2,749 views

Hard as it is to believe, this 1970 English comedy sketch is the origin.

It is amazing that it caught on YEARS later because in 1970 there was no Internet – but a few years later, Newsgroups debuted and the term just took off and lived on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wZ7YedEopp4

SQ89 [PersonRank 3]

16 years ago #

Actually it's not so amazing. Everybody loves Monty Python.

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