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MaisUm dia que ficará na história
Dia 3 de maio marca o dia onde a primeira mensagem não-solicitada foi enviada pela Internet (na época Arpanet). O Dia do Spam.
Aproveite e leia, do mesmo autor, a origem do termo spam e como ele veio parar no mundo digital.
Most people have some vague awareness that it came from at first from the spam skit by Monty Python’s Flying Circus. In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a group of Vikings (don’t ask) in the corner start a song:
“Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam! Wonderful spam!”
Until told to shut up.
Thus the meaning of the term at least: something that keeps repeating and repeating to great annoyance. How did the two get connected?
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There are unconfirmed reports as well that the term migrated to MUDs from early “chat” systems. Rich Frueh believes the term originated on Bitnet’s Relay, the early chat system that IRC was named after. When the ability to input a whole file to the chat system was implemented, people would annoy others by dumping the words to the Monty Python Spam Song.
