{"id":5193,"date":"2022-03-30T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/techscape-when-wikipedia-fiction-becomes-real-life-fact\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:36:07","slug":"techscape-when-wikipedia-fiction-becomes-real-life-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/techscape-when-wikipedia-fiction-becomes-real-life-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: When Wikipedia fiction becomes real life fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: how a madeup backstory for a crisp mascot became accepted fact, and why it proves the internet doesn\u2019t just reflect reality \u2013 it can alter it too<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s a fun fact: the guy on the front of a Pringles can has a name \u2013 Julius Pringles.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an even funner fact: Pringles only started using that name in 2013, after Kellogg\u2019s acquired the company and trademarked it \u2013 before using it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PringlesUS\/posts\/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-and-company-sang-the-praises-of-pringles-this-week-\/204056846420507\/\">a half-hearted social media push involving Jimmy Fallon<\/a> and then sort of forgetting about it for a bit.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Pringles logo is a stylized cartoon caricature of the head of a male figure (commonly known as \u201cJulius Pringles\u201d) designed by Louis R Dixon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/30\/techscape-fake-news-misinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/35fba05df60c418c828b4a206368f50a9f0ec4d3\/0_150_4500_2700\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=974af5293c77db010ad9a6e5ec3fb887\" title=\"TechScape: When Wikipedia fiction becomes real life fact\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: how a madeup backstory for a crisp mascot became accepted fact, and why it proves the internet doesn\u2019t just reflect reality \u2013 it can alter it too<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nHere\u2019s a fun fact: the guy on the front of a Pringles can has a name \u2013 Julius Pringles.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s an even funner fact: Pringles only started using that name in 2013, after Kellogg\u2019s acquired the company and trademarked it \u2013 before using it in a half-hearted social media push involving Jimmy Fallon and then sort of forgetting about it for a bit.<br \/>\nThe Pringles logo is a stylized cartoon caricature of the head of a male figure (commonly known as \u201cJulius Pringles\u201d) designed by Louis R Dixon. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: how a madeup backstory for a crisp mascot became accepted fact, and why it proves the internet doesn\u2019t just reflect reality \u2013 it can alter it too Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Here\u2019s a fun fact: the guy on the front of a Pringles can has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/techscape-when-wikipedia-fiction-becomes-real-life-fact\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: When Wikipedia fiction becomes real life fact<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}