Cracked Archive - Tech

6 Things You've Done This Week With Terrifying Side Effects

Truly, there is no downside to a technologically advanced society ... except for all of the terrifying ones we're about to tell you.

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By Vicki Veritas
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February 08, 2015

5 Stories That Prove Craigslist Is the Scariest Website Ever

Time to learn about some of the lesser-known, but still unsettling, Craigslist crime epidemics.

By Adam Tod Brown
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February 05, 2015

4 Annoying Steps Added to Break-Ups in the Past Few Years

This new freedom to ogle porn stars without having to quickly scrub away the evidence, was just the first of many technological changes that I would soon experience as I began going through the stages of the breakup.

By Mo Mandel
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January 22, 2015

We Found Pirates at the Consumer Electronics Show

How technology actually gets pirated is pretty ridiculous and infuriating.

By Robert Evans
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January 17, 2015

5 Ways Tech Companies Let You Know They Think You're Dumb

The purveyors of the credit-score-ruining gadgets of tomorrow seem less like Tony Stark-esque mad-geniuses and more like Professor Marvel from The Wizard of Oz.

By J.F. Sargent
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January 13, 2015

4 Things I Learned About Teenage Trolls (From Being One)

Back in 2001, my 15-year-old self and some friends trolled a previous version of Cracked.com so hard that the editors almost went mad.

By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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December 20, 2014

5 Lessons From a 1970s Female Programmer

To protect this woman's, I will refer to her only as 'Mom,' because she is my mom.

By Christina H
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November 29, 2014

3 Excuses Online Plagiarists Need to Stop Making

Stealing has been around since the dawn of time, and, like most things, the Internet makes it easier.

By Gladstone
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November 16, 2014

4 Bit Characters Who Deserved Way More Attention

By Jason Iannone
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October 18, 2014

The 6 Most Baffling Attempts to Improve Classic Products

You probably didn't realize that reboots happen to products also -- but they do, and they can be just as awful.

By Chris Bucholz
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October 14, 2014

3 Internet Shortcuts That Help No One

When it comes to shortcuts, the question to ask is: Is this shortcut worth taking because it's the smarter, more efficient way to do something, or am I really just being lazy?

By Gladstone
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October 05, 2014

7 Things That Will Never Happen Again Thanks to Technology

From Internet-ready refrigerators to cars that drive themselves no matter how drunk you are, there are some things we lose along the way, generally without even noticing.