History of spamming

Although spamming has existed on the Internet since as early as 1978, the first major spamming incidents didn't take place until the early 1990s. Spamming began becoming a major problem at the same time that the Internet began its exponential mainstream expansion in 1993 (also known as Eternal September).

Termin SPAM comes from BBC television comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus". In one of their skits appears small restaurant with chorus of vikings in horned helmets. Vikings officiously advertising "spam" (like an Hormel's Spiced Ham). See text of this skit here.

• Make money fast
• Serdar Argic
• Canter & Siegel
• The net.kooks
• UUnet and the Usenet Death Penalty
• Sanford Wallace
• Spam attacks and sporgery
• Spam King
• Conviction of spammers to jail, see e.g. Howard Carmack