Word: spam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first coming of me." Smith's collaboration with MC Lyte and Ali, "Who Am I?," has a chorus that even the most jaded listener will sing along to. And for New Year's Eve, a copy of Willennium will be just as vital as the canned Spam and flashlights when you're waiting for the ball to drop...
...stand Spam. The unsolicited junk e-mail that pours into my In box at the rate of a couple of hundred a day doesn't bother me much. You can pretty much blank it out by not opening those enticing messages with titles like "chance of a lifetime!" or "hot naked co-eds!" What I can't stand is chain mail and hoaxes, because they tend to come from friends. And it's tough telling friends they've been had, especially in front of all the other folks who were copied on the message...
...first e-mail, of course, had not come from AOL HQ. Some enterprising (and cowardly) porn-site operator had been looking for an AOL account to "bounce" his spam mailings out of--in this case, 1,700 of them. Once someone has your password, it's child's play for him to pass out, under your name, anything he wants. Sending a fake e-mail to elicit the necessary information is called password fishing, and Holderman is by no means the first to fall for it. Remember, the Melissa virus was first sent from an unsuspecting AOL user's account...
...English come in two flavors. Regular verbs like walk and smell form the past tense by adding -ed: Today I walk, yesterday I walked. English has thousands of them, and new ones arise every day, thanks to our ability to apply rules instinctively. When people first heard to spam, to mosh and to diss, they did not run to the dictionary to look up the past tenses; they knew they were spammed, moshed and dissed...
...Typical cost of a "Y2K survival kit" for sale on U.S. websites, containing items like Kool-Aid and Spam, worth a total...