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
July 14, 2003
Was the race horse Seabiscuit the biggest newsmaker in America in 1938?
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July 8, 2003
Does a photograph show third-world protesters with mistranslated signs?
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July 6, 2003
In which we learn the difference between a whale and a whale shark, and the genitals thereof.
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July 2, 2003
Does the web site FreeFlixTix distribute free movie tickets?
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July 2, 2003
Has the federal government established a national 'Do Not Call' registry to stop calls from tele ...
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June 30, 2003
Do photographs show the effects of a brown recluse spider bite?
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June 28, 2003
Did George W. Bush once describe rapper Eminem as the most dangerous threat to American children ...
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June 26, 2003
Photograph shows a man who tried to scratch his nose with a power drill.
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June 25, 2003
Is actor-director Clint Eastwood the son of comic Stan Laurel?
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June 19, 2003
Revising the past to make it look better to the present is an age-old phenomenon.
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June 18, 2003
Accidentally-risqué domain names are nothing new on the internet, but was Powergen behind this U ...
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June 18, 2003
Is your help needed to find a missing 5-year-old Austin girl named Sabrina Fair Allen?
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June 18, 2003
Does Best Buy need you to submit your credit card information to validate a purchase?
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June 17, 2003
Is British Airways offering free round-trip travel to London for forwarding an e-mail to 10 othe ...
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June 15, 2003
Is Wal-Mart trying out products embedded with RFID tracking chips?
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June 13, 2003
A complicated Honda Accord commercial was reportedly achieved without the use of computer-genera ...
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June 11, 2003
Will joining Word-of-Mouth.Org enable you to find out what others are saying about you?
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June 9, 2003
Hillary Clinton once claimed she was named after famed mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary, but ...
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June 9, 2003
"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria."
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