# What happened here?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-here/14966>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 21, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-here/14966 "2000-03-21T01:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-here/14966/1 "2000-03-21T01:55:00Z")

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One of you computer types, could you please tell me what’s up with the home page of [CNN.com](http://CNN.com), and a couple other sites. All the words under all the headings are all, well, sort of jammed up on top of each other. Looks like scribbles. Noticed this after the hack attacks a few weeks ago. I asked CNN but haven’t gotten any answer. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-here/14966/2 "2000-03-21T02:02:00Z")

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[cnn.com](http://cnn.com) looks normal to me. Either the condition was only temporary, or possibly your text size settings are the problem. [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) uses some pretty small fonts; try a larger text size setting and see if that inproves anything. (It’s on the View menu in MSIE; I forget where Netscape has it)

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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-here/14966/3 "2000-03-21T02:14:00Z")

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You mean it’s MY fault??? DANG, I was hoping it was CNN…well, thanks for the suggestion!
