Cracked Archive - Tech
Tinder Installs "Are You Sure?" Safety Function To Deter Gross Messages
Bad news if your go-to Tinder pickup line is asking your match if their pants are from space ...
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- By Carly Tennes
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27 Microsoft Finally Kills Off Internet Explorer
Goodnight, sweet prince.
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- By Carly Tennes
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7 (Nearly) Lost Wonders of the World Wide Web
Changes to the internet can be good. But we're losing beloved pieces of culture and community in the process.
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- By Justin McGown
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4 Sci-Fi Tropes That Are Coming True Because Of The Cops
American police departments sure are learning the wrong lessons from our favorite movies.
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- By Charles Smith
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55 Weird Stories About How Famous Things Got Invented
Every invention has a story, and most of them are totally ridiculous.
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- By Cracked Writers, Ryan Menezes
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Man Buys Google Argentina's Domain Name For Less Than $3
Talk about a cybersquatting bargain ...
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- By Carly Tennes
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Google Translate Has Dinosaur Ideas About Gender Roles
When a century of feminism gets lost in translation.
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- By Cedric Voets
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A History of WhiteHouse.com, A.K.A. The Biggest Internet Controversy Of The 1990s
Back in the day, every website name was up for grabs, and stupidity inevitably followed.
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- By Greg Ott
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4 Wikipedia Editing Scandals That Slipped Under Readers' Radars
Wikipedia is an invaluable resource for cheating at bar trivia, but it does have its downsides.
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- By Mark Hill
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5 Foolish Flaws That Make Crypto Total Trash
Crypto is crapto, everyone.
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- By Steven Assarian
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'Space Karen' Elon Musk Is Now Officially Tesla's 'Technoking'
Here's what you need to know about Elon's, erm, Musk-y new title.
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- By Carly Tennes
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Amid Non-Fungible Token Boom, Publicly Traded Human Sells Quarter As 'Fungible Token'
If NFTs are non-fungible, what exactly would a fungible token do?
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- By Carly Tennes
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Twitter's First Tweet For Sale As Digital Art, Highest Bid Stands At $2.5 Million
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but five-word a tweet is worth millions in cold, hard cash.
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- By Carly Tennes
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4 Embarrassing Moments In The History Of Big Sites
Remember when Netflix sent DVDs to your house? Anybody? Hello?
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- By Mark Hill
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4 Reasons Tech Titans Went From Gods To Garbage
It's hard to enforce the great man theory when that great man won't stop complaining on Twitter.
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- By Cedric Voets
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