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Where there’s email, there’s spam. With a plethora of list-servs at their fingertips, Harvard students have gotten pretty adept at sending out provocative, enticing, and downright ludicrous statements in order to pump up attendance for whatever a cappella jam/dance show/charity event/speakers’ panel/massive orgy that is going on at the moment. It's all spam to FlyBy. But, you know what they say: one man's trash is another man's treasure. So here are some of the most weird, funny, and heartbreaking spam excerpts that FlyBy found in its recent...
MySpace's story is an almost stereotypical coming-of-age tale for Internet start-ups, a modern-day bildungsroman of social networking. The idea was birthed in the seedy underworld of the Internet by the same folks who brought you such innovations as spam, the pop-up ad and spyware. The site itself was a rip-off, a hastily thrown-together clone of its predecessor Friendster. Both sites missed the heyday of the Web bubble, but there's something to be said for persistence and a good idea, and MySpace quickly grew far beyond anyone's expectations. (See TIME...
House List: Cabot-open, while generally confined to activity-related spam, is nonetheless the venue of several heated threads each semester. Recent debates have pitted tutors Fiery Cushman ’03 against Sam Lipoff over whether batteries are safely disposable, as well as sparking public admonitions on the part of some residents of other Caboteers’ smoking/incense habits...
House List: Lots of event-based spam hits the Eliot list, but it's worth keeping yourself subscribed for the occasional entertaining YouTube post or random argument...
...remember the world beyond BoA. Load up a rucksack and head West—worked for Kerouac! Cancer Admit it—your G-mail inbox is more crowded than Noch’s on a Saturday night. But don’t miss those gems in your spam folder: why not “learn the perfect trick of lovemaking”? Leo Sick of snow in March? Light up your life with a new flame—hey HBS Rugby Team heyyy. Virgo We’re in the midst of midterms and procrastination is beckoning, but save...