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  • S.P.A.M., SPAM, spam (and lobster thermidor)

    Posted by mart on May 27, 2017

    SPAM luncheon meat was first produced in the Depression era in the United States (1937), by the Hormel Foods Corporation.  It was named by Ken Daigneau who had won a contest (and $100).  Ken was the …

    Britain, Computers, Food, Modern Age, USA
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  • OMG, unfriended. WTF?

    Posted by mart on May 23, 2017

    Although millennials seem to think they invented text-speak, having no concept of communication such as telegram or morse code, you might be surprised to learn that some of the words associated with social media were …

    Computers, Etymology, Industrial Age, Middle Ages, Modern Age
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  • The First Computer Virus

    Posted by mart on April 23, 2017April 24, 2017

    In 1971, Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies created a self-replicating program, designed to infect servers on ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. Allegedly named after the Scooby Doo villain, the Creeper Virus infected the remote systems …

    Computers, Modern Age, USA
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