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    Internet spam was apparently named after a Monty Python skit, where a couple at a restaurant find that everything on the menu involves spam.

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The Luddites made their first attack on knitting frames in Nottingham, England.

On the 11th March, 1811, the Luddite movement began their destructive activities against the machines that threatened their livelihood.

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