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
Jan. 8, 2004
Did AP mistakenly send out hundreds of athletes' home phone numbers?
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Jan. 7, 2004
Did Indonesian villagers capture a 49-foot, 985-pound python?
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Jan. 7, 2004
Is the FBI sending out illegal download warnings?
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Jan. 2, 2004
Did Paul Harvey write a review of 'The Passion'?
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Dec. 31, 2003
In the absence of a logical explanation for something so commonplace, people invented their own ...
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Dec. 31, 2003
Hillary Clinton forced U.S. troops in Afghanistan to wait for their Thanksgiving dinner?
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Dec. 30, 2003
Photographs show golfer Tiger Woods' wife posing nude.
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Dec. 23, 2003
German and British soldiers played soccer and exchanged gifts during a brief truce on Christmas ...
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Dec. 23, 2003
Callers pretend to be fraud investigation agents for Visa and MasterCard in order to obtain cred ...
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Dec. 22, 2003
Misheard lyrics to Christmas songs are immortalized as 'mondegreens.'
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Dec. 22, 2003
E-mails from a company's Human Resources Director document the difficulties of office holiday pa ...
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Dec. 15, 2003
Is the ACLU seeking to remove cross-shaped headstones from federal cemeteries?
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Dec. 15, 2003
Did a QVC demonstrator fall from a ladder on live television?
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Dec. 14, 2003
A tongue-in-cheek scientific analysis of Santa's toy delivery process.
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Dec. 13, 2003
Is a little girl from named Sophia Tennis missing from her Phoenix, Arizona home?
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Dec. 12, 2003
According to the internet, this tourist died of fright after being photobombed by a ghost in the ...
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Dec. 12, 2003
A local NBC affiliate in Texas did confirm that a hurtful message about Jewish people was publis ...
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Dec. 9, 2003
Did a practical joker land tourists in trouble by publishing a bogus phrase book?
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