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URBAN LEGENDS AND COMPUTER HOAXES
A business traveler goes to a lounge for a drink at the end of the workday. ... Hewlett-Packard and Gateway have just merged to form the biggest computer supplier in the world! ... The first 250,000 people who send this to at least 15 of their friends will receive a brand new IBM computer! ... Send them your address, and in a couple of days, a brand new computer, complete with printer, and 19" monitor is sitting on your doorstep! ...
These types of stories are legends and hoaxes that have been translated in different countries and passed on to many people through email and word of mouth. ... If you can’t find the source to be correct, you may be the receiver of an urban legend or a computer hoax.
What are Urban Legends and Computer Hoaxes?
Many stories that sound like “news” are actually just rumors or “urban legends”. ... An urban legend is a popular narrative alleged to be true, transmitted from person to person by oral or written communication including both fax and email transmission (About. ... A computer hoax is an email message with one purpose, and that is to be sent to a large number of people. A lot of the hoaxes that are spread through the net are nothing more than tall tales or jokes. ... Urban legends are a type of folklore – the traditions, stories, and beliefs of “the folk” – ordinary people (About. ... Legends are normally not traceable to one single source. ... Urban legends are primarily spread from person to person and that is why no two versions of the urban legend are alike (About. ... Computer hoaxes are just as serious. ... It is believed that urban legends emerged around the turn of the 20th century. ... In 1988, CH, the 1st known computer hoax virus was circulated. ... No one really knows who first coined the phrase “urban legend” to represent the remarkable tales. ... Some urban legends are meant to be funny, but others are meant to cause panic and fear among people in the world (About.
Approximate Word count = 1686
Approximate Pages = 6.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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