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Cracked began as a comedy magazine in 1958, jumped online in 2005, and has hooked millions of readers with its addictive blend of whip-smart humor and book-smart knowledge ever since. Cracked’s team of writers and editors knows that their audience is hungry to learn, and every article is crafted to keep their engaged and educated readership coming back. The Internet may reinvent itself every few years, but Cracked has endured thanks to its twofold commitment to teaching its readers absolutely everything and never, ever leaving them bored. Since late 2019 it has been owned and operated by Literally Media.

Server maintenance and most of the coding for these sites is done by my friend davean, who tries hard to remain invisible but can be reached at davean@xkcd.com . Designer Christina Gleason also helps with posters, books, and various side projects. What does XKCD stand for? It's not actually an acronym. It's just a word with no phonetic pronunciation -- a treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character strings. Where did all this start? I was going through old math/sketching graph paper notebooks and didn't want to lose some of the work in them, so I started scanning pages. I took the more comic-y ones and put them up on a server I was testing out, and got a bunch of readers when BoingBoing linked to me. I started drawing more seriously, gained a lot more readers, started selling t-shirts on the site, and am currently shipping t-shirts and drawing this comic full-time. It's immensely fun and I really appreciate y'all's support. Why can't I read the whole comic mouseover text in Firefox? They can be read with extensions like Long Titles , or by right-clicking on the images and going to 'properties', then clicking and dragging to read the whole thing. This is a bug in Firefox, Mozilla Bug #45375 . It has been outstanding for many years now. Note: It looks like it's been fixed in Firefox 3.0. Now, as an added tweak, to keep the tooltips from expiring while you're reading, you can use this . Can we print xkcd in our magazine/newspaper/other publication? If it's a not-for-profit publication, you need no permission -- just print them with attribution to xkcd.com. You can post xkcd in your blog (whether ad-supported or not) with no need to get my permission. How can I find the date a comic was posted? The posting date is in the mouseover text on the archive page. Is there an interface for automated systems to access comics and metadata? Yes. You can get comics through the JSON interface, at URLs like http://xkcd.com/info.0.json (current comic) and http://xkcd.com/614/info.0.json (comic #614). How ...

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