History of spamming
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History of spamming
"SPAM" a 19th Century Problem
In the late 19th Century
Western Union allowed telegraphic messages on its network to be sent to
multiple destinations. Up until the
Great Depression wealthy North American residents would be deluged with
nebulous investment offers. This problem never fully emerged in Europe to the
degree that it did in the Americas, because telegraphy was regulated by national
post offices in the European region.
History of Internet "SPAM" (1978-Present)
Although
spamming has existed 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). More recently, Tim Roarty, using the tag tjroar, spammed
across so many internet forums with such a high rate of posting that he is
credited with a slow down in overall internet speed. Most major forums have
disabled the ability to register as tjroar on their forum due to this problem.
It is suspected taht tjroar was a collection of irc trojans and they trolled the
internet to sign up for forums - fortunately the creator is unable to modify
them and they only try to sign up as the user name "tjroar", see
spam for more information.
Origin of the term "SPAM"
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."
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