Internet 'spam' comes from Monty Python's SPAM sketch — Vikings chanting so loud it drowns everything.
Irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, or spreading malware.
The food product SPAM was created by Hormel Foods in 1937 — the name is commonly said to derive from 'spiced ham' or 'shoulder of pork and ham,' though Hormel has kept the official origin ambiguous. In 1970, Monty Python's Flying Circus aired a sketch set in a cafe where every dish contains SPAM and a group of Vikings drown out all conversation by chanting 'SPAM' repeatedly. In the early internet era (late 1980s to early 1990s), users on Usenet and MUDs began using 'spam' to describe repetitive, unwanted
The internet meaning of 'spam' comes directly from a 1970 Monty Python sketch where a group of Vikings in a cafe chant 'SPAM, SPAM, SPAM' so loudly that no one else can be heard. Early internet users on MUDs and Usenet adopted the term for messages that similarly drowned out legitimate conversation. Hormel Foods, maker of the canned