First Spam?
by if anyone cares, tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the first spam message (1978)
can anyone tell me what the internet was called back then?
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USENET (?)
good old dogpile.com (or google)
nope
hmmm '78 i believe the internet was known as the Arpanet and as StarshipTrooper said, a big part of it was Usenet, but there were also other uses such as Gopher, Archie and others
arpanet is right.
that was my second answer, i swear!! =)
;)
spam...spam...spam..spam...wonderful spam, wonderful spam!
(any Monty Python fans here? oh yea probably just us old farts,,,,,
you got it...now will that be spam eggs and spam? or just spam spam spam and spam?
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
hmm, do u have anything without spam?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it!
History of Spam (yummy) (barf)
HONORARY SUBSCRIBER. Today's Honorary Subscriber is George A. Hormel (1860-1946), the man who brought us Spam. No, not junk mail -- Spam with a capital S, Spam the food. During the Great Depression, Hormel's company sold 1.5-pound cans of beef stew for only 15 cents, providing an affordable, filling, and nutritious meal for the families of unemployed workers. The beef stew and other "poor man's dishes" (including canned products such as corned beef and cabbage, spaghetti and meat balls, and chili con carne) were highly regarded in those lean years. Authors Joseph J. & Suzy Fucini write:
"Encouraged by the success of its poor man's dishes, Hormel & Co. introduced an economical pork loaf in 1937. The canned meat ran into a major problem before it even got to market, however, when the U.S. government would not allow the company to call it ham, because it was made from pork shoulder instead of the hindquarters.
"In an effort to come up with a substitute name for the humble luncheon meat, Princeton-educated Jay Hormel turned to his country-club circle of friends. The younger Hormel threw a party at his 170-acre Austin estate and asked guests to 'pay' for cocktails by suggesting a name for the new product every time they ordered a drink. 'Along about the third or fourth drink they began showing some imagination,' the executive later recalled. It was Kenneth Daigneau, a visiting New York radio actor who suggested the name that was eventually chosen -- Spam.
"Like its predecessors, inexpensive Spam found a ready market in depression America. Sales of the proletarian pork dish were greatly aided by an advertising campaign featuring George Burns and Gracie Allen, which urged people to try a "Spamwich" or "Spambled eggs" for an economical lunch."
ok i guess that was more then u wanted to know an now i've lost my appitite.
wow, spam is only like a month older than me...
u mean u were born in 1937 =)?
i'm co-fused.
hmmmmm spam and broccili. quite a nice dinner dish.
<-- always had spam with mac n cheese
i think Spam is fit for cats only....it looks like cat food.
i don't think my cat would eat that...he's very finicky.
how could you eat that with delicous mac 'n' cheese? its totally broccili served with pasta. and sprinkled with cheese
i never put cheese on my broccoli...never thought of it
its only way my kids will eat it.
kids?? what kids??
lol MY KIDS!!!!!!!
its sooooooo good that way!!!
speaking from PAST exp? i thought u can't have dairy.
but i do anyway.
ahh, so like u ;)
you can't? will you perhapsfill it with insiduous insiduousness?
i like lemon pepper brocolli or i just put vinegar on it-i have this thing for acidic foods.
Cheese sauce cheese sauce cheese sauce!!!!!!!!!!! That should be claimed the food of the gods
specially chedder!!!