| If you're wondering where the term "spamming" came from,
here's the most persuasive etymological account I have come across: the
word came from a Monty Python sketch in which the characters were in a
restaurant that mainly sold Spam. Items on the menu included things like
"Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs, ham, and Spam." Whenever the waitress
recited the menu, a group of Vikings in the corner would chime in with
her, chanting the word "Spam" over and over, drowning out
everything else.
Some members of the media have spread the explanation that the word
"spamming" derives from throwing chunks of Spam into a fan. This
is not where the term comes from. |
