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
Nov. 3, 2003
Japanese software replaces Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 31, 2003
Will a moratorium on Internet taxation expire on 1 November 2003?
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Oct. 29, 2003
Does fellatio significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women?
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Oct. 28, 2003
Woman's death notice directs 'gifts be made to any organization that seeks the removal of Presid ...
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Oct. 27, 2003
Did Former President Bush write that trying to eliminate Saddam Hussein in 1991 would have 'incu ...
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Oct. 26, 2003
No credence should be given to the notion that experiments intended to measure the weight of a h ...
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Oct. 23, 2003
Paralegal for elite New York law firm produces memo rating the quality of local sushi restaurants?
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Oct. 18, 2003
A supposed account by a woman who said she named her child after the rescuer who died while savi ...
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Oct. 17, 2003
Are hotel room keycards encoded with personal information?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 15, 2003
A remake of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was promoted with the tagline, "Inspired by a true sto ...
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Oct. 13, 2003
Photographs depict damage to automobiles caused by exploding aerosol cans.
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Oct. 6, 2003
Is it true that dropped food remains germ-free if picked up off the floor within five seconds?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 4, 2003
Rumor: A bank attempted to collect credit card service charges from a dead customer.
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Oct. 2, 2003
Did lightning strike a church during a sermon?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 2, 2003 (Updated: Feb. 4, 2020)
A list purportedly documenting racially questionable statements made by the conservative radio t ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 2, 2003
Rumor: List records statements by Democratic leaders about Saddam Hussein's acquisition or posse ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 30, 2003 (Updated: Oct. 4, 2019)
Does reusing, freezing, or warming plastic water bottles cause them to break down into dioxins o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 29, 2003
Have you won a free Xbox from Prize Bounty?
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