Ha, ha, April Fool!
But more seriously, why do geeks seem to really delight in April Fool's jokes?
Slashdot today gave themselves an April 1st makeover, and are linking to other 04/01 pages, such as Locus Magazine's announcement of Star Wars "adult-themed" books.
Notably, Google today "launched" Google Romance, which looks real until you look at their press release.
And don't forget all the various April Fools Internet RFCs: RFC 3251, "Electricity over IP", RFC 4042, "UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode", and especially RFC 1149, "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers".
EDITED TO ADD: wikipedia has an April Fools Day 2006 page which is astonishingly large.
2 comments:
My favorite thing about the Google Romance site is this link: "Post multiple profiles with a bulk upload file, you sleaze
I keep wondering how long before Google gets pressured to not do this sort of fun stuff, given their size and number of outstanding public shares....
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