The term "spam" emerged from a sketch comedian group Monty Python

Originally, the word «SPAM» appeared in 1936. It stood for SPiced hAM (spicy ham) and it was a trademark for canned meat - acute sausage meat pork.

After World War II were huge stocks of canned food, made to supply during the war, not only US soldiers but also soldiers of the Allied Lend-Lease program. In order to sell their products is not the first freshness, Hormel Foods Company held the first of its kind campaign. The word «SPAM» was evident on every corner, with windows all the cheap stores, it was written on the sides of buses and trams. This word could be read on the facades of houses and in the newspapers. Advertising canned «SPAM» constantly broadcast on the radio.

World renown as applied to intrusive advertising, the term «SPAM» received thanks to the famous sketch "Spam" from the famous television show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (1969). The meaning of the sketch is to ensure that one cafe all dishes on the menu contain «SPAM», some of them several times. When the main character sketch, came to this cafe with his wife, he asks you to bring a dish without "SPAMa" waitress offers him a dish with a "small amount SPAMa».



The credits to the names of the actors also added the word «SPAM». In total, the word «SPAM» mentioned in the sketch 108 times.

In 1986, Usenet newsgroups, a host of identical messages from a certain Dave Rhodes, who promoted new financial pyramid. The headline read: "Earn a lot of money," and in his letters containing instructions how to do this. Author with enviable persistence continued to duplicate the texts, and they are so tired of eating subscribers that they were compared to the advertised canned sketch.

Because of the word "spam" was fixed a new value, and later transformed into computer terminology to designate the annoying advertising mailings.

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