PALO ALTO-In what was intended as a neat way for friends and family to say their peace on the peace that another person said on an original post that may or may not be a mutual friend, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims he had absolutely...
CONCORD, NH-Findings from a recent poll taken by the University of New Hampshire show that 95% of Hotmail accounts were created as a result of people not wanting to register their good emails when prompted to do so by shady sites. "Sure, I'll tak...
The world of internet geeks and tech specialists spoke out today at their surprise when Facebook made a statement saying that Thursday 26th January 2012 would see absolutely no changes to their security settings, page layout, timeline appearance, gro...
The world's interconnected telegraph network, also known as the intertelnet, has been running for a little over forty years now, sending Morse code messages around the civilised world. It was in 1832 that the first electrical telegrammatic message was sent from Dorking to Effingham by Lady Spongebob Telegraph, wife of the inventor Lord Jethro Telegraph. Famously, the message was a whimsical descri...
The Spoof's readers have been taking part in a protest against the US's new SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) legislation which is currently passing through the Senate. Other websites, such as Wikipedia, have taken themselves down for the day in order to...
Facebook is adding a series of new applications to let users share such things as photos, travel or fashion. The online social network firm unveiled more than 60 new ways to waste time on Facebook. The company, tipped for a $100bn initial public o...
In a move that has shocked the nation, the president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak has announced that should the North Koreans comply with United Nations resolutions and abandon it's nuclear program, South Korea will give up the internet. South Ko...
NEW YORK CITY - The once proud domain king is now starting to look more and more like the domain jester as the nationwide Dump GoDaddy Day boycott has resulted in over 70,000 customers leaving the world's largest web hosting site. A spokesperson f...
Washington DC -- Faced by increased popular pressure against its moves to control and censor the Internet, Congress has decided to sell the World Wide Web to the highest bidder. "The Internet is very powerful in its ability to encourage people to...
After a recent spate of email account hacking the online email providers, like GoogleMail, Yahoo and Hotmail, have all been urged to adopt biometric password systems. "Email hacking has become very sophisticated in recent months," said internet se...
It was reported today that a man was seen 'backing down' in an 'internet argument'. He has since been arrested for performing the said 'act' in an open forum, often visited by children. The incident took place between the hours of midnight and 2a...
Recently there has been a lot of controversy relating to the modern world's effects on the developing brain. However, one area in particular has been overlooked, until now. Professor Susan Fallowfield notes "My previous work has shown that the poo...
A social network for Twits has become one of the most visited sites on the internet. Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, according to Wi...
SILICONE VALLEY - It has been deemed the most promising of all search engines. MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice have taken their fortunes from Hip Hop and VH1 reality shows and invested all their assets in a brand new search engine, called Wiredoo, which is...
GOOGLE EARTH - There's one story that says Google is intentionally trying to damage Apple's name and sales revenue. There's another that says there are normal glitches in any search engine. Either way, the iPhone4S goes on sale today whether you hate it or glitch it. But this story is not about Apple and its pure brilliance. It's about Google and their spell check. For years, Google has tried...
HARFOLD, Vermont--Upon hearing the news that an HIV-positive adult film performer has shut down the production of pornographic films in California, several male residents in Harfold State College's Looner Hall (otherwise known as "Geek Dorm") plunged...
Readers of online news sites, such as the Spoof, or the now defunct NOTW-Online have been left confused and annoyed by the lack of editorial checking over external hyperlinks on stories. "Many of the stories have hyperlinks that go to the wrong pl...
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