Latest update on Monday 19 April 2021 à 05:21 by Natalia Kudryavtseva. Spam is one of the main problems of the Internet nowadays. It overloads your inbox, infects the computer system, and doesn’t do anything good neither to your PC nor to your email client. In Internet Archaeology, we dig into the history of major web and tech events and inventions, so in this article, you will find out where this so well-known and familiar to every internet user, spam is coming from, and who is the “evil genius” inventor, and what does it have to do with canned meat. Where is the spam coming from?