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SPAMDEX

Specialty Definition: SPAMDEX

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Spamdex (Presumably from "spam", "index") word spamming. "Spamdexing has come a long way from the halcyon days of the summer of 1995. Back then, all one needed to do was add the word 'sex' a thousand times at the end of a Web page to attract attention from the likes of Lycos. The search-engine operators caught on fast" -- Andrew Leonard, Hotwired 1996 (http://www.packet.com/packet/leonard/96/32/index3a.html). (1997-04-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SPAMDEX

Specialty definitions using "SPAMDEX": word spamming. (references)

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Anagrams: SPAMDEX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-p-s-x"

-2 letters: dames, damps, exams, maxes, meads, paxes, spade, spaed.

-3 letters: amps, aped, apes, apex, apse, axed, axes, dame, damp, dams, daps, exam, made, mads, maes, maps, mead, mesa, pads, pams, pase, peas, peds, sade, same, samp, seam, spae, spam, sped.

-4 letters: ads, amp, ape, asp, axe, dam, dap, dex, eds, ems, mad, mae, map.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-p-s-x"
 

+4 letters: maxillipeds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SPAMDEX


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 50 41 4D 44 45 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .--.    .-    --    -..    .    -..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010000 01000001 01001101 01000100 01000101 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#65 &#77 &#68 &#69 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 0041 004D 0044 0045 0058

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53503547383958

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