SPAM: A HISTORY

[defrog]

ITEM: Spam (as in the email variety promising every man on Earth surefire stock tips, discount pharmaeuticals and a bigger cock that’ll stay hard for hours and shoot jism at a muzzle velocity powerful enough to knock over a milk bottle at 30 paces – cos chix dig that) is 30 years old today.

Backgrounders and historical artifacts (like the actual spam message that started it all) are here and here. But there’s really only one proper way to celebrate the origin of junk email that now accounts for 90% of all email sent in the world:

Bloody vikings,

This is dF

Comments

[jasonfranks.livejournal.com]

I used wot work for a company who sold a spam filtering software application called IHateSpam.

Hormel (holders of the Spam trademark and manufacturers of the genuine article, if one can called potted meat 'genuine') tried to sue us for defamation.

-- JF