28 Trivia Tidbits About Pop Culture That’s Aged Poorly

Plus: 20 Movie ‘Plot Holes’ That People Are Tired of Explaining                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 April 23, 2024 | [Read Online]( [fb]( [tw]( [in]( [email](mailto:?subject=Post%20from%20Cracked%20Newsletter&body=28%20Trivia%20Tidbits%20About%20Pop%20Culture%20That%E2%80%99s%20Aged%20Poorly%3A%20%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fcracked.beehiiv.com%2Fp%2F28-trivia-tidbits-pop-culture-thats-aged-poorly) Welcome to the Cracked newsletter! This issue is about poorly-aged pop culture, funny firings, trivia tidbits, how Tim Curry saved ‘SNL,’ and much more. Was this email forwarded to you? [Subscribe here](. [How Tim Curry Saved ‘SNL’ From an Epic Behind-the-Scenes Meltdown]( Whether you’re a fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show or Clue or the celebration of child endangerment that is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, it’s pretty much impossible not to love Tim Curry, the legendary actor who turned 78 on Friday. He even showed up in a couple of episodes of Roseanne, playing one of Dan’s sketchy friends who is sadly never revealed to be Pennywise the Clown in disguise. Far less-celebrated is Curry’s one and only Saturday Night Live appearance, even though he bailed the show out of a historic disaster. [READ MORE]( [These Are the Oldest Websites in the World]( Ah, the internet, our modern source for good news and bad news, pleasure and pain, buying things and researching loans because we bought too many things. But with how quickly and widely it’s expanded, multiplied by the years it’s had to do so, the idea of the “entire internet” is laughable now. Of course, this wasn’t always the case. Even the mightiest tree, bearing the fruits of mostly pornography, starts from a single seed. The internet as we know it — and when I say internet here, I mean the world wide web that still exists at the beginning of most URLs, even if we don’t write it out anymore; if you want to go on at length about TCP/IP and peer-to-peer connections, can it, nerd — was invented in 1989 [by a scientist named Tim Berners-Lee]( who was working at CERN. (No, it [wasn't Al Gore](.) CERN stands for the Conseil Europeen por la Recherche Nucleaire, or in plain American, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Which is to say, finding out a computer scientist at CERN invented the world wide web is like finding out a chef in Japan invented sushi. [READ MORE]( 35 Little-Known Bits of Pop Music Lore 33 Misleading Marketing Campaigns and Downright Desperate Ads That Should Be Nuked From Our Collective Consciousness 28 Trivia Tidbits About Celebrities Behaving Badly 20 Movie ‘Plot Holes’ That People Are Tired of Explaining 36 Bizarro Cultural Touchstones From the ‘80s and ‘90s That Might Explain Why Millennials Are Like That 28 Trivia Tidbits About Pop Culture That’s Aged Poorly 33 of the Funniest Reasons People Got Fired on Their First Day on the Job 31 Trivia Tidbits About America’s Worst Habits and Policies TWEET OF THE DAY [ARTICLES | PICTOFACTS | VIDEOS]( [fb]( [tw]( [ig]( [yt]( [tk]( Update your email preferences or unsubscribe [here]( © 2024 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2023 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd. 190 West St. Brooklyn, New York 11222, United States of America