snopes.com's David Mikkelson Interviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday August 2, 2003 @02:48PM from the useful-for-sucker-bets dept.

pipingguy writes "Online Journalism Review interviews David Mikkelson of the Urban Legends Reference Pages. While the Internet has taken its share of knocks for helping scammers perpetrate e-mail and Web hoaxes (the Bambi hunt reportedly was staged to sell videos on the proprietor's Web site), not enough credit is given to the folks who are using the Internet to debunk them. Snopes.com is the work of the husband-and-wife team of David and Barbara Mikkelson, who have taken their passion for urban myths to the Web since 1995."

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Snopes gets it wrong at least once by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-02 23:41 · Score: 0, Troll

The Snopes entry about Gore taking credit for creating the Internet gets it wrong.

The guy gets hung up on a false semantic difference between "create" and "invent", and ignores the fact that the Internet existed for several years before Gore got involved with it.