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
Feb. 28, 2004
Woman mistakenly unzips pants mechanic working under car.
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Feb. 25, 2004
Did Donald Rumsfeld deliver a stinging rebuke to Ted Kennedy during a Senate committee meeting?
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Feb. 25, 2004
Did Andy Rooney say God told him Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson are 'wackos'?
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Feb. 19, 2004
Does a photograph show a woman holding a large domestic cat?
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Feb. 19, 2004
Do photographs show fisherman with giant catfish caught by 'noodling'?
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Feb. 19, 2004
Does a photograph show a surfer approaching a lurking shark?
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Feb. 19, 2004
Does a transcript record President Bush's remarks to reporters at a New Mexico restaurant?
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Feb. 19, 2004
Were John Kerry's Vietnam War service medals earned under 'fishy' circumstances?
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Feb. 17, 2004
Once upon a time, the notion of women proposing marriage to men was an aberration.
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Feb. 15, 2004 (Updated: July 13, 2022)
We first encountered this tale of technology turned onto itself being circulated in e-mail in Oc ...
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Feb. 12, 2004
Does a photograph show Senator John Kerry and Jane Fonda sharing a speaker's platform at an anti ...
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Feb. 10, 2004
Does a photograph show Senator John Kerry at a 1970 anti-war rally?
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Feb. 10, 2004
Is a California man suing CBS, Janet Jackson, and Justin Timberlake?
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Feb. 5, 2004
Will signing up with a 'National Do Not E-Mail Registry' stop you from receiving unwanted e-mail?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 5, 2004
Did the name of Australia's annual Moomba festival come from a derogatory Aboriginal term?
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Feb. 5, 2004
Photographs show 3D-like sidewalk paintings done in chalk.
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Feb. 4, 2004
A photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing a nebula dubbed the 'Eye of God' is an ...
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Feb. 4, 2004
Does a photograph show a large mountain lion killed by a deer hunter in Kansas?
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Feb. 1, 2004
Janet Jackson's breast was briefly exposed during a halftime performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII.
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