How did the word "SPAM" came about?
It all started with an old Monty Phyton skit in which a group of Vikings sing in a chorus of "SPAM, SPAM, SPAM..." at an increasing volumes in an attempt to drown out other conversations. The analogy to modern day spam applied is because unsolicited e-mail is seen as drowning out normal discourse in the internet.

And in Europe, SMS is hugely popular that Britain's Guardian newspaper organised a poetry contest using SMS. Here is one entry.
a text message poem / his eye are bunsen burner blue / his hair like iron fillings / with ac/dc going through / i sit by him in chemistry / it splits my atoms / when he smiles at me.

awwwwwww......reporting to you from London, MasterBates signing off.