Comment by jaysonelliot
7 years ago
Slightly off-topic, but it's cool to see David Mikkelson posting in that Usenet group as "Snopes," as that's where he first used the name, even before launching the urban myth-busting site in the '90s.
7 years ago
Slightly off-topic, but it's cool to see David Mikkelson posting in that Usenet group as "Snopes," as that's where he first used the name, even before launching the urban myth-busting site in the '90s.
I had no idea Snopes was that old; that was my takeaway from this as well. We've always assumed it wasn't an actual quote from Gates, but I only knew Snopes as the website.
Snopes wasn't originally called "Snopes," was it? I seem to remember it as something else, like "urbanlengend" or something. Maybe the movie bought the name?