SPAM
As more people came online, more people gained exposure to email and message boards. Thus the term spread from just MUDs to anything on the Internet. People started to try to assign meaning to it and eventually came up with the acronym: Simultaneously Posted Advertising Message.
Eventually, Hormel, the owners of the meat product Spam, became upset that their product was associated with something so negative. They tried, in vain, to stop the use of this term. But then, as now, policing the Internet is very difficult. Eventually, they dropped it and tried instead to use it as a means of getting people interested in their product.
Thus you have it, from simple processed meat to Simultaneously Posted Advertising Message, that is the origin of internet spam.
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