Site News: The authors, editors, illustrators, and podcasters of Damn Interesting mark the 20th year (so far) of making interesting stuff Written by Alan Bellows • September 2025 © 2025 All Rights Reserved. Do not distribute or repurpose this work without written permission from the copyright holder(s). Printed from https://www.damninteresting.com/twenty/ In 2005, YouTube, reddit, and Facebook were all still wet and screaming infants. Google, working under the motto “Don’t Be Evil,” had just dethroned Yahoo! as the planet’s most popular Internet search engine (AskJeeves was not available for comment). Nickelback was at the height of its fame. Internet Explorer was the most used web browser, by far. Tamagotchi TM Connection was the must-have toy of the season. And in September of that year, a 27-year-old science and history nerd named Alan published Damn Interesting’s first article⁠— Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom . This month is our site’s twentieth birthday.…