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Submission + - SPAM: Could the Mandela Effect be responsible for database corruption?

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: The movie "Yesterday" has the premise that only one guy can remember the Beatles — there is literally no evidence apart from his memory of them ever existing. That's called the Mandela Effect, and is named after a bunch of people being sure Nelson Mandela died in the 80's, right down to them remembering his funeral on TV. So far it's been contained in various nooks and crannies around the internet, such as reddit, facebook groups and YouTube channels.

However Christopher Anatra, the President of an established food ERP software distribution company, NECS, Inc., has made a video aimed at their customers explaining that any discrepancies might be down to the Mandela Effect.

The NECS website gives many more examples:

"Is a popular type of apple, and the national apple of Canada, the Macintosh or the Mcintosh?

If you said Macintosh, you would be wrong. The Macintosh apple has never existed. Which is surprising, because that means that Steve Jobs at Apple Computer incorrectly named the Apple Macintosh computer in 1984. It also means that MACWORLD magazine should have been named MCWORLD."


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Submission + - CERN: Mandela Effect a by product of time experiments (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: News just in from CERN is sure to send massive shock waves throughout the scientific world, as they admit the recent experiments sending particles back through time using a quantum computer had some unintended consequences.

"In 2012 we first succeeded in sending a few particles backwards in time for just a few nanoseconds. We were very careful to detail all the possible results, but with such high energies involved the number of possibilities proved to be too numerous to identify completely. Most particles either self destructed or instantly returned to their original state, but some disappeared without trace. We now believe some of these were entangled, with one of the pair taking a path completely unknown to us — possibly through an unknown dimension. It then returned back into our time line at some random point prior to the point they departed. Most of the time this would have gone unnoticed, but sometimes small changes in the past did actually occur. These have been documented by various parties and is the reason behind what some call 'The Mandela Effect'"

Submission + - "Luke, I am your Father" not even in top 10 Mandela Effects (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: The Mandela effect is being referenced more and more in mainstream media, including Mr Robot, the X-Files and the upcoming Yesterday movie.

A study has been performed where for over a year, users were asked random questions regarding what they thought was the current, as opposed to the alternate, version of all the popular Mandela Effects and other MMDE's (Mass Memory Discrepancy Effects). 600,000 questions were asked and the results analysed for patterns such as country, topic (Art, Movies etc), strongest believed, strongest disbelieved etc. The results are surprising (Spoiler — the most popular is the Swastika changing direction). It seems people from Canada are the most likely to experience the Mandela Effect, and people from France the least. Many famous ones, such as the Star Wars quote, the Berenstain Bears etc don't even make the top 10.

Submission + - Google is now causing the Mandela Effect to feed itself (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: Coined back in 2012, the Mandela Effect is so called because a bunch of folk swear they remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the '80's. Rather than accept they remember wrong, they instead say he actually did but they then shifted to a parallel universe where he in fact went on to become the President of South Africa before dying in 2013. There are many other examples. It's had an X-Files episode devoted to it and even Jim Carrey mentioned it as being a thing on Bill Maher's show recently.

However, there's a big fuss on Reddit caused by one of these "ME's" throwing up the incorrect image for a legitimate Google search. It's for the Fruit of the Loom, the clothing brand, which even the company says never had a cornucopia on their logo, yet Googling for it shows a thumbnail of one with its results. That "incorrect" image came from a Mandela Effect website, and the article there is just discussing the "did it/didn't it" aspect, with the accompanying image having a cornucopia. The problem, for those that can keep up, is the ME crowd are now saying Google knows how the old image looked because "it's right there in the search results, exactly as I remember it."

Submission + - A Test to see if you have The Mandela Effect (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: A new test has been announced which does it properly. Previously, you'd get the same old questions from a small pool, half of which applied to a name or country you'd no idea about. Looks like the creators of this one took all the earlier issues into account. The question pool runs into the hundreds, each set of 12 is different and the answers are jumbled up so you can't follow a pattern. Crucially, even though you have to answer 12 questions, you can just roll a new one at any stage until you get one you're comfortable with, thus solving the problem just mentioned, and skewing the results with 100% random guesses.

The idea of a Mandela Effect Test is just plain weird. Not only is there a lack of right or wrong answers (the test here uses the terms "current" and "alternate"), but according to the theory, they can change later which is known as a "flip-flop". The best example of this is the claimed "Houston, (we have)(we've had) a problem" being seen to change then change back again.

Submission + - It's finally happened: the "666" CERN logo itself is a Mandela Effect (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: The Mandela Effect crowd claim they remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980's, and not going on to become the President of South Africa before dying in 2013. They explain this by saying they shifted timelines, or they are in another dimension etc. They also have tons of interest in CERN, who they suspect are causing this by tinkering with reality with their particle accelerators. It's about to go mainstream with a movie due next year and more coverage/references in shows such as Mr Robot (warning: link may be big spoiler for those currently watching).

There are many instances: the Star Wars line everyone remembers as "Luke, I am your Father" is actually "No, I am your Father". There are also many logo changes which include Ford, KitKat and Blue Riband. Now it seems it's come full circle — the CERN logo itself, a symbol based on a schematic for a synchrotron, is being remembered by some as being simpler in the past than the one we see today. Furthermore, the "old" one is said to be based on not much more than 3 6's rotated and joined at the centre.

In any case, the days of consipracy theories being simple, such as "Who shot JFK" are over. And just to prove it, yup, that's one too.

Submission + - Gene Kelly didn't breakdance even though he does on video (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: The third season of Mr Robot is here, and it features the Mandela Effect conspiracy in it's story line. That name comes from the idea that some people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980's, but rather than accept they were wrong, claim he really did in their universe. They then somehow moved to one where he didn't, so there is no evidence of it apart from their memories. There are many other examples of this, such as the Star Wars line "No, I am your father" being widely remembered as "Luke, I am your father".

An article on a Mandela Effect website talks of a technical angle which is a bit more down to earth than CERN experiments being behind it: old digital content being manipulated, initially to show ads, and entirely new content featuring old assets. In other words, now it really is possible to show convincing different footage on the internet to that which was originally broadcast. This goes back as far as 2011, where reruns of How I Met Your Mother had digital plasma TV's inserted in a scene showing ads for a movie which hadn't been made then. Many more examples exist, such as Gene Kelly breakdancing and the Star Wars digital re-release.

How long before this is being done covertly? And if someone claims it is, are they just dismissed as a Mandela Effect conspiracist?

Submission + - Old movies/TV shows being changed is freaking out the Mandela Effect crowd (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: The third season of Mr Robot is here, and it features the Mandela Effect conspiracy in it's story line. That name comes from the idea that some people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980's, but rather than accept they were wrong, claim he really did in their universe. They then somehow moved to one where he didn't, so there is no evidence of it apart from their memories. There are many other examples of this, such as the Star Wars line "No, I am your father" being widely remembered as "Luke, I am your father".

Carter Tweed talks of a technical angle which those who believe they are affected are just gonna love: old digital content being manipulated, initially to show ads. In other words, now it really is possible to show convincing different content on the internet to that which was originally broadcast. This goes back as far as 2011, where reruns of How I Met Your Mother had digital plasma TV's inserted in a scene showing ads for a movie which hadn't been made then. Many more examples exist, such as Gene Kelly breakdancing and the Star Wars digital re-release.

How long before this is being done covertly? And if someone claims it is, will they just be dismissed as a Mandela Effect conspiracist?

Submission + - Old movies/TV shows being changed is freaking out the Mandela Effect crowd (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: The third season of Mr Robot is here, and it features the Mandela Effect conspiracy in it's story line. That name comes from the idea that some people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980's, but rather than accept they were wrong, claim he really did in their universe. They then somehow moved to one where he didn't, so there is no evidence of it apart from their memories. There are many other examples of this, such as the Star Wars line "No, I am your father" being widely remembered as "Luke, I am your father". Carter Tweed talks of a technical angle which may point towards a way of doing this today: old digital content being manipulated, initially to show ads. In other words, now it really is possible to show convincing different content on the internet to that which was originally broadcast. This goes back as far as 2011, where reruns of How I Met Your Mother had digital plasma TV's inserted in a scene showing ads for a movie which hadn't been made then. Many more examples exist, such as Gene Kelly breakdancing and the Star Wars digital re-release. How long before this is being done covertly? And if someone claims it is, are they just dismissed as a Mandela Effect conspiracist?

Submission + - Could Cryptocurrency kill online advertising? (linkedin.com) 1

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: Far from being a new form of malware, could it turn out users actually prefer to trade a little CPU time to website owners in favor of them not showing ads? Slashdot covered the downside of this recently, with even Cristiano Ronaldo's official site falling victim, but that may not be the full story. This could be an ideal win-win situation, except for one huge downside — the current gang of online advertisers. Of course Google are already looking into controlling it, with a permission based system to start off with whilst letting 3rd party Chrome extensions take the strain for now. Adblockers are looking to extend their functionality to include AntiMining, too.

Submission + - Mandela Effect discovered from the 1980's when the term didn't even exist (alternatememories.com)

Submitted by phonewebcam
phonewebcam writes: The Stopped Clock of Bologna: This happened when the main clock at Bologna station in Italy stopped after a bomb exploded there in 1980. It was repaired immediately, but 16 years later broke again. This time, rather than repair it, as an act of remembrance it was decided to leave it set to the time the bomb exploded, which was 10.25am. It's still stuck at that time today. Photos of the clock showing this time were shown alongside reports of the bombing throughout the years, which may have contributed to the ME. In any case, many people still think the clock was stopped during the 16 years after the bombing. What's weird is that some of these were staff actually working at the station, and many were travelers who would have seen and relied on it daily too.
The phenomenon was documented in a research study at the time by a team of Italian psychologists, who of course had no term for the Mandela Effect back then.

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