Cracked Archive - Tech

The 5 Worst Error Messages in the History of Technology

By Chris Bucholz
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April 23, 2013

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The 26 Stupidest Invention Ideas (You'd Use Every Day)

Idiotic patents that would actually help improve things around here.

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By Cracked Plasticians
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April 12, 2013

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25 Invasions of Privacy We'll Probably See Next

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By Cracked Plasticians
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April 03, 2013

5 Amazing Advances That Are About to Make Hard Work Obsolete

You industrious types who take great joy in doing difficult tasks -- go clean your gutters. For the rest of our lazy brethren who are still reading this, probably from bed, we're here to tell you that the future is bright.

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By Hamish MacDonald, Jeff Sloan
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March 10, 2013

5 Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think

It turns out that many of the technologies we automatically peg as modern are actually way older than we think.

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By Mike Floorwalker
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March 01, 2013

The 5 Most Stupidly Disastrous Military Computer Glitches

Highly trained military personnel, despite the whole 'highly trained' part, are oftentimes just as bad with computers as we are.

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By Erik Germ
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February 28, 2013

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21 Web Browser Features We Desperately Need

There are web browser plugins and settings that do everything from block ads to convert every page to Klingon. But they still don't touch most common we annoyances. We asked you to show us what features would make browsing the web, videos etc truly tolerable. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...

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By Cracked Plasticians
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February 20, 2013

5 Advanced Technologies Nature Does Better Than Scientists

Sometimes we need to man up and admit that we're not always the best at what we do. In some cases, nature just rolls its eyes, pushes the scientists out of the way, and shows us how it's done.

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By Micah Duke
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February 19, 2013

3 Despicable Internet Behaviors (That Are Really Your Fault)

Hey, did you hear? Humanity is doomed. Everyone on the Internet is saying so.

By Soren Bowie
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January 19, 2013

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If Gadgets Talked S#!% Behind Your Back

Examining the terrifying existential implications of 'Toy Story's sentient dolls and action figures. But gadgets are the species of sentient inanimate object that would probably make things the most powerfully weird for the modern world.

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By Cracked Plasticians
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January 18, 2013

4 Reasons the Internet Has Made Everyone an Entitled Dick

Why is it that you and I and everyone else on the Internet are so convinced the world owes us everything, quickly, of the highest quality, and free? How did we get to be such self-entitled little bastards?

By Chris Bucholz
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January 15, 2013

6 Awesome Easter Eggs Hidden in Programs You Use Every Day

It turns out some of the programs and websites you use every day are filled with hidden jokes or secret features that prove that programmers are even nerdier than we had assumed.

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