How did the term “spam” come to mean unsolicited commercial
e-mail !?
All of us literally receive scores of them,everyday!!
Flash back to 1937, when Hormel Foods creates a
new Line canned
spiced ham, SPAM :
Then, in World War II,
SPAM luncheon meat becomes a staple of soldiers’ diets (often
GIs ate SPAM two or three times a day),it even got rationed!!!!
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| Spam Everywhere in the War,merely everywhere! |
But SPAM went to a new level,it became the talk of the town everyday,that nearly every meal was nothing but SPAM!!!!
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| Spam for breakfast,lunch,dinner,duh!! |
SPAM went on to record sales,but as it went on becoming popular,many people got too bored of having SPAM nearly all the time and it became a 'bore' ,called and made fun of by many as 'The Sad Sack':
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| SPAM: Sad Sack, George Baker |
Next, SPAM’s wartime omnipresence perhaps inspired the 1987
Monty Python skit in which a breakfast-seeking
couple unsuccessfully tries to order a SPAM-free meal while a
chorus of Vikings drowns them out, singing “Spam,spam,
spam,spam … .”
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| A scene from the 1987 Monty Python 'SPAMalot' skit |
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| Monty Python as the "SPAM" waitress. |
To computer users drowning in junk e-mail, the analogy was obvious.
“Spam,” they said, “it’s spam.”
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