Viral Email vs Virus Email...Here's the Story!
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Viral email rocks the world: "David Smith
Sunday December 12, 2004
The Observer
George W Bush's garbled syntax, the weirdness of reality TV and lads' fantasies about gorgeous catfighting women - this is how posterity may come to judge how we live now. The picture of 2004 emerges not from the traditional social documents of diaries, letters or newspapers but the email inbox.
Many a bored office worker has welcomed a jokey email doing the rounds, often in response to a news or sports event. They often forward it to their friends, who forward it to their friends, instantly spreading it around the world. Such messages have become known as 'viral emails' - not to be confused with computer viruses.
These still images, movies or text documents are preserved by the online archive Bore Me. The British-based website has now published its top 10 most downloaded virals of 2004."
Sunday December 12, 2004
The Observer
George W Bush's garbled syntax, the weirdness of reality TV and lads' fantasies about gorgeous catfighting women - this is how posterity may come to judge how we live now. The picture of 2004 emerges not from the traditional social documents of diaries, letters or newspapers but the email inbox.
Many a bored office worker has welcomed a jokey email doing the rounds, often in response to a news or sports event. They often forward it to their friends, who forward it to their friends, instantly spreading it around the world. Such messages have become known as 'viral emails' - not to be confused with computer viruses.
These still images, movies or text documents are preserved by the online archive Bore Me. The British-based website has now published its top 10 most downloaded virals of 2004."
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