How the Word “Spam” Came to Mean “Junk Message”
Today I found out how the word “spam” came to mean “junk message” or “junk mail”. While some have suggested that this was because SPAM (as in the Hormel meat product) is sometimes satirized as “fake meat”, thus spam messages are “fake messages”, this potential origin, while plausible enough on the surface, turns out to be not correct at all. … Continue reading How the Word “Spam” Came to Mean “Junk Message”
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