David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 21, 2009
Did the cast of 'M*A*S*H' not learn of the death of Col. Henry Blake until they were actually fi ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 17, 2009 (Updated: Jan. 10, 2020)
Accepting a Facebook friend request from a stranger will not provide hackers with access to your ...
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March 16, 2009
Pastor of New York's Times Square Church warns of imminent catastrophe?
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March 14, 2009
Photographs show a New Jersey monument to the victims of 9/11 that was donated by Russia.
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March 13, 2009
One party to a territorial dispute tricks the other into a damning admission.
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March 12, 2009
Protest against federal spending encourages Americans to mail tea bags to the White House.
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March 11, 2009
Is CIA director Leon Panetta's daughter a 'radical anti-American'?
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March 8, 2009
Was the French dip sandwich invented to placate a restaurant patron who complained about stale b ...
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March 5, 2009
Anecdote tells of the pilot of a disabled bomber who went down with the plane in order to comfor ...
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March 4, 2009
Photographs show a gravesite adorned with a parking meter reading 'TIME EXPIRED.'
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March 3, 2009
Photograph shows the tail number of Air Force One to be 'N166ER'
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March 2, 2009
The U.S. government has agreed to allow China to exercise 'eminent domain' as collateral for Ame ...
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March 1, 2009
The owner of a Dunkin' Donuts directed that a memorial flier for a U.S. soldier be 'placed on a ...
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Feb. 28, 2009
Video clip reveals that a digital TV converter harbors a hidden camera and microphone combination?
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Feb. 27, 2009
Photograph shows a retail display of books about Barack Obama including a book about monkeys?
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Feb. 24, 2009
Photographs show the results of an automobile accident caused by an 'intexticated' driver?
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Feb. 24, 2009
Will a new executive order severely limit firearms ownership by the elderly?
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Feb. 24, 2009
Historian David Kaiser or Timothy Wood penned an article cautioning that 'Something of historic ...
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Feb. 24, 2009
Dr. Sam Vaknin penned an article about the dangers of Barack Obama's narcissism?
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