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The website and collection of books were started in 1993 by Wendy Northcutt, who at the time was a graduate in molecular biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

She went on to study neurobiology at Stanford University, doing research on cancer and telomerase.

In her spare time, she organized chain letters from family members into the original Darwin Awards website hosted in her personal account space at Stanford.

She eventually left the bench in 1998 and devoted herself full-time to her website and books in September 1999.

By 2002, the website received 7 million page hits per month.