Cracked Archive - Tech
The Bizarre Origins Of The Internet's Most Persistent Meme
One night I got wasted and decided I'd finally had enough Minion memes. So I decided to fire back at them in the most gangster way I knew how: I drafted a tweet about it.
- By Erik Germ
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- January 13, 2016
7 Insane Problems We'll Have To Deal With In The Future
Our near-future will be filled with annoyances that will make us yearn for an ape and/or machine uprising.
- By Michael Hossey
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- December 22, 2015
5 Ways To Ruin Your Computer (Tested)
It turns out that a stubborn determination to fix something RIGHT NOW DAMMIT is not an especially good mindset when dealing with delicate, precision-oriented tasks.</p>
- By Chris Bucholz
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- December 19, 2015
5 Nightmarish Realities Of Replacing Your Phone
My journey from phonelessness to re-enphonification took just hours of time, but the true cost was to my soul. In a way, I died that day.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- December 08, 2015
6 Man-Made Things You Totally Thought Were 'Natural'
Hold on to your learnin' hats, because almost everything that we traditionally file in the 'natural' folder has been tampered with well beyond recognition.
- By Ivan Farkas, Ryan Menezes
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- November 24, 2015
The Awful Reality Of The Worst Fighting Game Ever
I got paid to play Final Slam 2. That's the way it should be. People should get a direct deposit of $4.00 every time they launch the game.
- By Luis Prada
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- November 21, 2015
5 Simple Solutions That Would Make Facebook Bearable Again
Because of the nature of the Internet and just plain ol' dumbass human interaction, the longer Facebook is an entity, the stronger its IQ vacuum becomes.
- By Emily Leighty
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- November 20, 2015
5 Lessons Found In The Worst Online Criticism (Really)
I take intelligent criticism to heart, but I even try to find value in the ... less than brilliant stuff that is so prevalent here on the Internet. And I think I can help everybody do the same.
- By Robert Brockway
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- November 10, 2015
The Most Weirdly Specific, Lazy Spam Email I Ever Received
If I want a service of any kind, I at least want it from someone who has the wherewithal to capitalize their words in email subject headings.
- By Luis Prada
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- November 07, 2015
The 6 Most Useless Features Found in Flashlight Apps
I don't know how to make an app, but I can't imagine a flashlight app is difficult to make. It seems like the potato-powered lightbulb of the app world.
- By Luis Prada
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- October 10, 2015
5 Shocking Ways The World Is About To Change
The thought of eating bugs might gross/freak/flip you out, but chances are you're doing it already and just don't know it.
- By Jason Pargin
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- October 06, 2015
5 News Writers Who Are Bad Internet Comments Come to Life
Let's examine five types of deplorable Internet comments and the columnists from rather large institutions who are their living embodiment.
- By Luke McKinney
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- October 03, 2015
5 Hilariously Petty Abuses Of Revolutionary Technologies
Technology is how humanity puts its smartest minds into its dumbest hands.
- By Luke McKinney
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- September 24, 2015
6 Sexy Ways To Speed Up Your Computer
I shouted angry oaths at my own computer until it answered me. Here's what I found.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- September 19, 2015
8 Once Cutting-Edge Websites That Are Now Super Depressing
Like an awful stain on the already disgusting tapestry of porn we call home, here are some of the more inexplicable 1990s artifacts that are somehow still around.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- September 06, 2015
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