The history of spam is interesting. While it’s been called spam for only a few decades, the first recorded instance of sending unsolicited messages was over a century ago. In 1864 Western Union proudly introduced a new telegraph feature where users could send a single telegraphic message to multiple destinations on their network. This new […]
While unsolicited email advertisements have been around for decades, it wasn’t until a few years later that it was commonly called “spam”. The story on how it came to be called “spam” is an interesting one. The actual spam term came from a Monty Python sketch from 1970 where there was a cafe that featured […]