The 2000s (or the 'noughties' as the kids are calling them) are coming to a close. And to celebrate, we've been counting down the funniest movies, sketches, and people of the past ten years. Next up, quotes. But not just funny quotes - DUMB quotes, which as we know are the best kind.
"How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it."
— Alexander Shulgin (Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story)
For those of us here at Cracked, there are basically three types of animals: ones we'd like to keep as pets, ones that taste delicious and ones we only know a couple of things about. Sometimes these categories overlap, but that's another story.
Anyhow, the category we're concerning ourselves with in this article is the last one: animals that we know one, maybe two things about. Now, these are by no means obscure facts; you probably learned them when you were 10, and, as should surprise no one who has read the title, these "facts" are completely, totally wrong.
I was digging through some files the other day and found this document from 1997. It gathers a set of quotes from issues of Wired magazine in its first five years. I don't recall why I created this (or even if I did compile all of them), but I suspect it was for our fifth anniversary issue. I don't think we ever ran any of it. Reading it now it is clear that all predictions of the future are really just predictions of the present.
Here it is in full:
The Quotations Page is one of the oldest quotation sites on the Web, perhaps the oldest. It was first placed online sometime in 1994, as "Michael Moncur's Quotations Page." It has gone through many changes since then, including major redesigns in 1996, 2000, and 2004.
Major features added in the 2000 update include a better quotation search engine, a larger database of book reviews with their own search engine, and a forum for discussion of quotation-related topics. In July 2002, we added the Quotes by Subject section, and we continue to add new subjects. In December 2002 we added biographies for over 1000 of our quoted authors. In 2004 we simplified many of the pages to make navigation easier and added Your Quotations Page, where members can store their favorite quotations.
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