{"id":97,"date":"2016-12-13T18:09:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/corriesmith\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2017-01-22T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T13:29:19","slug":"intro-internet-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.buprojects.uk\/2016-2017\/corriesmith\/intro-internet-hoaxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Internet Hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People have always enjoyed playing trick on others. Heck, we even have a day dedicated to it (April Fools’). With the advent of the internet, it has made it much easier to pull pranks and hoaxes on a much wider scale. Here we take a brief look at the history of internet hoaxes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supposedly, the first internet hoax happened back in 1988. An email was sent far and wide with the subject line stating that a ‘Really, Nasty Virus’ was on the way. This started a whole wave of ‘chain letters’ i.e. hoaxes sent by email.<\/p>\n

Another notable example would be Bill Gates and his alleged $1000 dollar giveaway. This is a hoax that has seen many iterations of the years, with a similar idea still being shared around on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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Bill Gates giving away $5000 for a Facebook share. Source: Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n

Then, as technology progressed, doctored photographs and images would often be published online complimenting fake news stories.<\/p>\n\n\t\t