{"id":4357,"date":"2011-01-26T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:35:13","slug":"what-junk-messages-were-called-before-being-called-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/what-junk-messages-were-called-before-being-called-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"What Junk Messages Were Called Before Being Called Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/spamming-flooding-trashing1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4361\" title=\"spamming-flooding-trashing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/spamming-flooding-trashing1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/spamming-flooding-trashing1.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/spamming-flooding-trashing1-340x157.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How Spam Came to Mean Junk Mail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/how-the-word-spam-came-to-mean-junk-message\/\" target=\"_self\">Click Here for Sources and to Find Out How &#8220;Spam&#8221; Came to Mean &#8220;Junk Message&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before it was called \u201cspamming\u201d, as referring to unsolicited messages in a chat room or forum or the like, the generally used terms for these actions were \u201cflooding\u201d and \u201ctrashing\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Find Out How &#8220;Spam&#8221; Came to Mean &#8220;Junk Message&#8221; Text Version Before it was called \u201cspamming\u201d, as referring to unsolicited messages in a chat room or forum or the like, the generally used terms for these actions were \u201cflooding\u201d and \u201ctrashing\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1200,1199],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-junk-message","tag-etymology-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}