On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 8:07:00 PM UTC-4, Sam E wrote:

I always felt that SPAM ought to be the initials of something. Society
for the Perpetuation of Annoying Messages may not be a good one. Perhaps
something else is.

Here is what I dug up.....

Spam is named after a classic skit from Monty Python's Flying Circus, which took place in a diner where everything on the menu had spam in it. During the whole skit, a chorus of vikings keeps chanting a song about spam, drowning out conversations.

Yes, it's a little random (that's Monty Python for you) but it's very funny.. Years later, the skit reminded someone of how email in your inbox can get lost in all of the junk mail (the conversation gets drowned out by "Spam! Spam! Spam!"), so they started calling junk email "spam" and the name stuck..