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).
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Feb. 21, 2005
E-mail chronicles various ways scammers might obtain your credit card numbers.
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Feb. 18, 2005
Photographs show an infant Egyptian girl with a second head.
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Feb. 17, 2005
Helpful tip claims that washing the lint filter in your clothes dryer will help enhance the perf ...
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Feb. 16, 2005
Fauxtography: Photograph shows a moose poking its snout into a McDonald's drive-through window i ...
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Feb. 11, 2005
Do photographs show a mermaid-like creature discovered in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami?
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Feb. 9, 2005
Actor Denzel Washington once gifted a generous donation to the Fisher House, but he didn't fund ...
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Feb. 2, 2005
Voicemail message describes a confrontation between a motorist and four elderly women?
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Feb. 2, 2005
Did German publisher Mathias Döpfner write an editorial blasting the timidity of Europe?
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Feb. 1, 2005
Did an Iraqi militant web site display an image of action figure toy identified as a captured Am ...
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Feb. 1, 2005
Did Johnny Carson deliver a humorous monologue about 'What Democracy Means to Me'?
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Jan. 30, 2005
Do photographs show the results of a car vs. moose accident in Ontario?
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Jan. 25, 2005
Man frees himself from avalanche by urinating on the snow to melt it.
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Jan. 25, 2005
Romanian couple names their child 'Yahoo' out of gratitude for meeting over the Internet.
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Jan. 25, 2005
Battalion chaplain requests prayers for soldiers delivering voting machines & ballots in Iraq.
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Jan. 25, 2005
Did an Iraqi child given a toy by a U.S. serviceman reveal the presence of a mine in the road ab ...
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Jan. 24, 2005
Officer aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln describes difficulties with ship's humanitarian mission i ...
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Jan. 24, 2005
Rumor: A new Massachusetts traffic law requires that headlights be turned on when windshield wip ...
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Jan. 23, 2005
Viral ad featuring the Volkswagen Polo uses suicide bomber imagery.
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Jan. 23, 2005
Do photographs show a truck crashed into a mobile home by a disgruntled ex-spouse?
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Jan. 22, 2005
A viral ad featuring the Volkswagen Polo automobile and a suicide bomber was not created at the ...
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