History of spamming
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Although spamming has existed on on the Internet since as early as 1978, the first major spamming incidents didn't take place until the early 1990s. Spamming began becoming a major problem at the same time that the Internet began its exponential mainstream expansion in 1993 (also known as Eternal September).
The term spam is widely believed to have derived from the SPAM sketch of the BBC television comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus". The sketch features a small restaurant in which every item on the menu includes SPAM canned meat, and a chorus of Vikings drowning out all conversation with a song consisting almost entirely of the word "SPAM."
- Make money fast
- Serdar Argic
- Canter & Siegel
- The net.kooks
- UUnet and the Usenet Death Penalty
- Sanford Wallace
- Spam attacks and sporgery
- Spam King
- Conviction of spammers to jail, see e.g. Howard Carmack
This article is part of the Spamming series.
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