The Biggest Tech Hoaxes Of All Time


# The Mechanical Turk: The Mechanical turk is a fake chess playing game made in the 18th century by Wolfgang von kempelen. The inventor of the game claimed that the Turk made people think, reason, and defeat most of the opponents. Using it made most of the people win because it allowed a human to control the chess master by hiding beneath. With a skilled operator of the chess master the Turk won most of the games played on it while demonstrating across Europe and America. There were many challengers who were defeated playing it which includes Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin too.   

# The Spud server: After the discovery of electricity from a potato, it’s ability to power the internet went viral.  This was a hoax call and in the experiment there was an actual potato server set up by Fredric white and his computer spec sheet consisted of a microchip CPU running with a clock speed of 76.8 KHz and a 1.5V of power supply. The power output, voltage was measured by the computer with a potato battery, which makes it only a potato powered CPU and not an internet server.

# The iLOO: The iLOO was a Wi-Fi internet enabled toilet with an adjustable plasma screen, a keyboard, a speaker system and the toilet paper embossed with the names of the popular websites on it. This portable toilet was a project cancelled by the Microsoft and was widely disdained before being disclosed as a hoax.

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