Internet - Lessico
Questa lezione ti spiegherà l’origine di una parola molto usata nell’era di Internet.
SPAM Unwanted e-mail messages are called spam, but where does the term actually come from? Webopedia.com gives two different explanations.
The word may come from a song by the Monty Python, a famous group of British comedians: “Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…”. The song is a repetition of words with no value, just like junk mail.
Others think that junk mail has been called “spam” by a computer group lab at the University of Southern California. They maintain that unwanted mail has the same characteristics as SPAM™, a tinned meat product: nobody wants it, no one eats it, and only few people like it!
postato da pmanuella il lunedì 30 luglio 2007 in:
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