What is "spam"?

What is "spam"?

Ethan Feerst and Dylan Stewart (Technology Therapist, Mac Guru) gives expert video advice on: What is a "search engine"?; What is the difference between "upload" and "download"?; What is "spam"? and more...

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but we like it. For whatever reason spam became the generally accepted term for computer junk mail. We don't call it junk mail, we call it spam. Any kind of electronic junk mail is called spam because they're sending this junk out in mass quantities. Spam is both a noun and a verb. It can be something that a company or somebody with a very agressive email server does to thousands and thousands or millions and millions of people. They can start to spam people or send out lots of spam. It can be a noun or a verb.