<![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam! - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam! - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Anyone have a screenshot or archive of the Arpanet thread mentioned in the post?

porkchopxl

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @ banmojo: There's a perfectly reliable method of preventing spam in your inbox. Well, two methods:

1. Legalize death-by-torture of spammers. That includes the forced liquidation at 2 cents on the dollar of corporate spammers, like Amazon.

2. Don't use email.

Guy-Fawkes

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> I love spam ... there is nothing better then thin sliced spam cooked on a grill

tekjock

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @bms: I believe Spam is just processed meat, not the scraps that don't make into scrapple, which incidentally, are the scraps that don't make it into the trash bin.

GOKOR

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Isn't Spam what doesn't make it into hot dogs, scrapple, and sausages?

bms

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]>

Amazon sells spam?!?
$2.73 each hehe

[www.amazon.com]

oopl

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Git Em SteveDave: Absolutely. They wanted to know how to keep it from getting to our inboxes, and I made a suggestion.

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @GadgetPlay: Agreed that was a good one!

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Funny. Just had to share this with everyone. Out here in Hawaii they are having the SPAM JAM. They have this festival every year in Waikiki. It should be in the local paper tomorrow with pics, but here is the event link. Its a riot! [spamjamhawaii.com]

Plus spam makes a tasty breakfast meat at McDonalds and now Burger King!!!

lol

daddyjoe74

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @GadgetPlay: Dude, that was Commenter Hall of Fame worthy. LOL!

AJ_Syrinx

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Git Em SteveDave: Just as every sperm is sacred, so must be every piece of spam. If any spam is wasted, well - you get the idea.

FubarGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @GadgetPlay: But it still reached you. Just b/c a filter moved it, doesn't mean it's gone. 20 emails a day were sent to you ALONE. Multiply that by the millions of people out there, that's a considerable amount of data that is in essence, useless and wasted.

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Hello_Newman:

Food and Drug Administration of India?

Yea, I'm sure they must be corrupt since they have a longer life expectancy than Americans...

But seriously, out of all the places in the world, you picked one of the healthiest...

df747jet

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @banmojo: "after 30 years we still haven't figured out a reliable way to keep it from showing up in our damn inbox!!"

Try G-Mail. In the last 30 days, it's filtered out 601 spam e-mails. All were spam, and no spam made it through.

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Git Em SteveDave: "To commemorate this fact, every Smoke Jumper has a can of Spam in his gear."

Man, those guys must be really old!

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Leonard Nimrod: Jeez! I worked on the DEC20s, and the DEC10s. And now they're in museums? I am officially old...

rlee

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Oh lowly spam, why are you so despised?
Except that is in Hawaii, where not only is this the state that consumes the most spam per capita, it is often featured in haute cuisine in some of the finest restaurants.
Go figure...

BigDogues

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> oops.
that was a reply....@git em?

@Git Em SteveDave: why am i so dumb?

CYST!

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> me too. it's a shame.

CYST!

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> If it wasn't for spam I wouldn't have got that email from the ex-president of Nigeria wanting to deposit some money in my accounts. Who could pass up a deal like that? Thanks spam!

Abnormal

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @oo0cyst0oo: It's always bothered me the first two dishes mentioned didn't have any Spam in them, but she never mentions it when asked what hasn't got much Spam innit.

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @GadgetPlay: Spam was created the same year the US Forest Service Smoke Jumpers came into existence. To commemorate this fact, every Smoke Jumper has a can of Spam in his gear. It's true. I sent Spam a letter once, and they sent me a whole info kit.

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Andham: It did. Al Gore invented it. In his mind!

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> try explaining this skit to someone who has never seen it makes you understand how not funny it is, then you are sad.

CYST!

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> But these things come from eggs...so where are all the eggs coming from?

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @banmojo: what's with the weird monkey in sombrero?

spam and eggs and spam.

CYST!

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @CutePuppyz:

YES!

Derek Devine

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Happy birthday spam. I hate you. :D

CutePuppyz

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> If it doesn't age how can it grow older?

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @GadgetPlay: yeah, to be sold in S Korea and the P.I., man. those people eat Spam like with every fricking meal! and they know how to make it taste actually kinda good!!

As for the email spam, what blows my mind and pisses me off at the same time is that after 30 years we still haven't figured out a reliable way to keep it from showing up in our damn inbox!! FTW!

banmojo

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Yes Spam has been amazing. Where else can you get such a wide selection of fake Rolexes, "generic" Viagra certified by the Food and Drug Administration of India, and all manner of wee wee enlargers? Why I just got an email from Arbinger T. Milhouse telling me so.

I suppose it's good we can't time travel. Even going back 50 or 100 years people would ask if we have flying cars by now, and we'd just have to tell them about these instead.

Hello_Newman

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @GadgetPlay said, "The first batch of Spam the food was made over 70 years ago. We're almost done with that, and Hormel will be making another batch soon."

HAHA

Leonard Nimrod

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Some info and picture of the device being sold:

• [ricm.museum.com]
• [en.wikipedia.org]

Leonard Nimrod

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Andham:"The internet didn't exist 30 years ago, did it?"

The arpanet did, as it says in the post. The first batch of Spam the food was made over 70 years ago. We're almost done with that, and Hormel will be making another batch soon.

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Andham: Yes, but not as we know it today, and it existed (mostly) in its current form long before most people knew what it was. My dad's a professor at one of the early universities to connect to it so I saw it early on and thought it'd never come to much.

Oops.

Buran

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Andham: The email version. If you look only at teh pictures it's misleading, bu the article clears it up, including the "internet" in use 30 years ago.

Leonard Nimrod

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Wait, 30th anniversary of the food, or the computer term "spam"?

The internet didn't exist 30 years ago, did it?

Andham

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> @Adolf: So true.

11hawkinst

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Spam and Monty Python: two things that I'll never understand…

Adolf

]]> <![CDATA[Happy 30th Birthday, Spam!]]> Ewww!

Derek Devine

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