Talk:April 1, 2004

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There is a whole list of April Fool's jokes on this website if someone wants to list them (could be tedious).

• http://www.urgo.org/aprilfools.html

Goodralph 20:01, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Microsoft Corporation agrees to purchase the Wikimedia Foundation for an undisclosed sum. Wikipedia is to be merged with Encarta; an access fee of 99 cents per article retrieved will be instituted once the software upgrade to Windows NT-based servers is complete. Office Assistant is expected to be added in the immediate future, once voice actors for "it looks like you're vandalizing an article" can be found.

Where was this published? r3m0t 20:19, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

here -> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Current_events&diff=3009147&oldid=3009130

It seems to me that Google itself has not spoken about Gmail - I'm making a new section. I think people have been "joining in" with the hoax, like the probably fake screenshot circulating. r3m0t 20:37, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html , also note http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4641298/

http://www.google.com/press/index.html Google Press Center

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Stuff from Slashdot [1]:

• A review of Dating Design Patterns (ISBN 0974312002), which is real.

• Politechbot had Homeless to be Implanted with Subdermal RFID Tags

• ThinkGeek had a PC case for hamsters, an EZ Bake Over that fits in a 5 1/4 inch drive and a Magic Supersecret Binary T-Shirt.

• Google's Copernicus Centre

• OpenBSD Ported to Game Boy (was http://www.openbeer.it/porting/OpenBSD-gameboy.htm, no longer available; part is available in the Slashdot comments)

• George Lucas DVD Audio Commentary Leaked:

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

• Britain plans to tax Linux (site now here). There was a quote at http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1322, no longer available.

• Ask Slashdot: Using the internet for free food?

• Usenet Audio

• Ask Slashdot: People with real l337 speak names?

• RMS Lint

• Ask Slashdot: Developing Open Source Defense Projects

• Ask Slashdot: Homemade Subliminal CDs

• Ask Slashdot: Death by Coffee?

• 500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop

• Real, but topical: Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

• Quake ported to Inform (interactive fiction language): April 1st version

• Pigeon enabled internet faster than ADSL (RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (see April 1st RFC)

(Sorry about the length - I didn't have net access on fools day :) -- Jim Regan 21:34, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Joke eh

The Associated Press reported that Google would launch an e-mail service (http://gmail.google.com/) with 1 GB of storage for each user. [23]

Funny :O Was this initially intended to be a joke? - Sajt 23:24, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nope, but everyone thought it was, hehehe. --Veratien 17:24, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Similarly they're upgrading everyone to 2GB in a similarly Jokey manner.JamesGlover 19:40, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WiccaUK Reference

The neopaganism Internet forum WiccaUK was informed that spaghetti was invented by witches in the Middle Ages.

No-one actually took that seriouly, y'know... :p

--Veratien 17:23, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chicken heated nuclear landmines REAL?

The chicken heated nuclear landmine story still seems like an April fools joke to me. In the linked page there is a quote: "It does seem like an April Fool but it most certainly is not. The Civil Service does not do jokes." This just seems like more joking.