Darwin Awards
Sign in to saveironic award recognizing individuals who have died or became sterilized by their own actions
Key facts
- Type of site
- Humor
- Owner
- Wendy Northcutt
- Url
- darwinawards .com
- Commercial
- Yes
- Launched
- 1993 ; 33 years ago ( 1993 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles Darwin, after whom the awards are named
The Darwin Awards are a rhetorical tongue-in-cheek honor that originated in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool by dying or becoming sterilized by their own actions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Darwin Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.