Wikihistory – A Short Story

A lot of people on the Internets are linking to this short story by Desmond Warzel. I normally don’t participate in the blog equivalent of email forwarding “Fw: Re: FW: FWD: This is really funny,” but as a regular lurker in forums (fora?), I have to say that this is, in fact, the funniest thing I’ve read in awhile.

My favorite excerpt:

At 02:29:49, SilverFox316 wrote:
PS to SneakyPete: your Hitler paintings aren’t worth anything, schmuck, since you probably brought them directly here from 1907, which means the paint’s still fresh. Freaking n00b.