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
Oct. 25, 2000
A useless petition about drunk driving.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 24, 2000
Is Congress going to allow phone companies to charge you long-distance rates for accessing the I ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2000 (Updated: June 20, 2001)
Does an 1895 graduation examination for public school students demonstrate a shocking decline in ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 23, 2000
Did Principal Jody McLoud delivers a controversial speech before a football game?
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Oct. 20, 2000 (Updated: July 22, 2022)
The American television gameshow "Press Your Luck" first premiered in 1983.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 19, 2000
What a difference a day makes. But sometimes it makes no difference at all.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 19, 2000
The 'Rules for Teachers - 1872' list prompts us to marvel at the grimness of a late nineteenth c ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 19, 2000
High diver saved from jumping into a drained pool when he casts a cross-like shadow on the wall?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 16, 2000
Poking fun at people for the way they talk is is one of our oldest prejudices.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 15, 2000 (Updated: Nov. 17, 2021)
Perennially circulated bit of political humor holds that a distant relative of a prominent polit ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 15, 2000
Little girl seeks aid for her sick brother and learns the price of a miracle?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 12, 2000
Woman dies from bites of spiders nesting in her hair?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 9, 2000 (Updated: Oct. 13, 2022)
Some versions of this rumor posit that the cow eyes are used as hamburger filler, or to make bee ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 9, 2000
Urban legends about mutated KFC meat are good for a laugh, but the chain does not use meat deriv ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 9, 2000
Bill Gates has been busy doing other things than compiling lists of rules for youngsters to observe.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 8, 2000
Was a young Mel Gibson horribly disfigured in a fight, this becoming the inspiration for the 199 ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 7, 2000
Is 'Sony' an acronym for 'Standard Oil of New York'?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 6, 2000
Has Congress approved a special insurance dividend for veterans?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 6, 2000
Rumor has it that influential friends helped Al Gore get "special dispensation and a one-way tic ...
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