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Brad Templeton On Spam's Silver Anniversary
Brad Templeton writes "This Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the first spam I was able to find, and one month ago was the 10th anniversary of the first time a USENET posting was called a spam and the birth of the term (at least beyond mudds)." Templeton was also cited in the American Scientist article featured last Sunday.
* often refered to a 'dupe'
Spam was born in 1937. Originally called "Hormel Spiced Ham", the new "catchy" name was the result of a contest, the winner of which earned $100!
For more, see www.spam.com!
Well, actually there has been reported to be a can of spam travelling at near light speed somewhere past the asteroid belt. Although to someone travelling with the spam it would only appear to be a couple of years old, it appears to be thousands of years old to us on Earth...
Hello, my name is Indigo Montoya. You spammed my father, prepare to die.
-- Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
His story reminds me of how Abe Simpson (Grandpa Simpson) tells stories...
"I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter', you'd say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah...the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war; the only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."
Producer: NEXT!!
Ralph Wiggum: Chicken necks
You don't buy meat (or something that closely resembles meat) because its a synonym to unsolicited email?
Would it be safe to guess you live in a house (or closet, or cave) with only doors too?
... For you might just Get It.
[Insert partial list of the 10 gazillions Internet dating services found by Yahoo alone].
I hope that unearthing this ancient post will not make RMS lose his aura of geekness. What, he wanted to get laid? With all that code to write? Sheesh... What was he, a business major?
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How many times have you filled in a "You must give us an email address" box with something like "fuckoff@spam.com" or similar?
Poor bloody mail admins at Hormel, their lives must be hell. And what about if they accidentally left an open relay?
I don't buy Spam, but not because that's what we call unsolicited business e-mail. I don't buy Spam because it tastes like shit.
The world can be wrong today for once.
Besides, the practice of flooding peoples' inboxes doesn't really happen that way very much anymore.
:)
bughunter@earthlink.net
Let's test that theory
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.