WTF Happened

Monthly news recaps, occasional opinion pieces, and memes!

Stop killing old software!

Please?

Like Adobe, Unity jumped ship from the product business to the service business decades ago, and like many others, I was a customer they abandoned soon after that switch. Like Adobe, Unity made it increasingly harder over time to use their old software and eventually made it impossible to activate an old license you legitimately bought. The only way to use Unity 4.x now is to use a pirated, cracked copy of it, which introduces security challenges and performance hits...

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WTF Didn't Happen!? 2026 Edition

April Fools!

Happy April Fools!

This is a joke article. You fell for it.

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WTF Happened February 2026

3D printed couches are a thing! Oh and U.S.A. sucks right now. Sorry.

This is the February 2026 issue of WTF Happened! This is a really lengthy recap article that revisits news from the past month to allow us to highlight the most newsworthy news in a variety of categories.

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WTF Happened January 2026

Death by ICE... and cold weather! Canada store hijacked! Smart LEGOs!

This is the first WTF Happened recap article of 2026 but also the second article to appear on the new WTFHappened.net website. These recap articles are a short highlight reel of what happened in a specific period of time, in this case, the month of January 2026. It is now February, and I realize this could come across as late news, but this site is not about chasing headlines; WTF Happened is all about archiving interesting things about the recent past and on occasion, the not-so-recent past. Without further ado...

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