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...before you know it. As long as companies are trying to figure out what works by flying the next big idea past a bunch of teenagers, they may take chances on some zany concepts. But once the commercial winners are clear, more outlandish forms of content may fade away. Spam and advertising will creep in too. That makes now an ideal time for all of us to enjoy the wacky creation of a new industry. Your teenager's cell-phone habit might be driving you crazy, but it's jolting the tech world with a hit of much needed creative...
What the Arizona lawyers did that fateful April day was to "Spam" the Net, a colorful bit of Internet jargon meant to evoke the effect of dropping a can of Spam into a fan and filling the surrounding space with meat. They wrote a program called Masspost that put the little ad into almost every active bulletin board on the Net -- some 5,500 in all -- thus ensuring that it would be seen by millions of Internet users, not just once but over and over again. Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community, compares the experience with opening the mailbox...
...WILL SPAM EVER GO AWAY...
That's like asking if piracy will ever go away. I don't think either will ever completely go away. But we're getting better at banning spam...
...that infamous canned meat? “I don’t know, we may have had Spam,” Fitzsimmons says. If not, there’s always next fall...