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Best of April Fool's Day online

by Michael Rose Apr 1st 2008 at 3:15PM

Well, we admit we were snookered by the iPhone Dev Team's "we're selling out" alert, and so was our sister site -- but on a day when the hoaxes range from the desperately unfunny to the merely goofy to the silly-but-funny to the triumphantly hysterical, who can keep anything straight? Google's various flavors alone account for more than a dozen fake stories. Here's a couple of Mac-flavored gags that you might have missed:
Do you love the cognitive dissonance of April 1, or despise the silly, lame jokes that seem to propagate? Either way, you'll have another 364 days to wait for the next one.

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Well, we admit we were snookered by the iPhone Dev Team's "we're selling out" alert, and so was our sister site -- but on a day when the...
 

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Josh B

What about youtube.com.. try searching for you favorite video? It got me like 5+ times before I just gave up and decided to wait a day before I use youtube. Then i checked it a hour later and it got me again,.. so I would not wait for youtube to go back to normal until the 2nd.

April 02 2008 at 12:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim Thompson

The BBC and Terry Jones topped all the geek sites with this wonderful bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4

April 01 2008 at 9:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Caitlin

What about gmails custom date feature?

I fell for it for a good two hours. Went into an out loud rant about it in a school computer lab.

April 01 2008 at 8:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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TDig

That's amazing I was just going to comment about why no one said anything about the gmail spoof. I thought it was amazing for about 10 minutes until I remembered ign.com's horrible april fools joke about the never-gonna-happen zelda movie (darn them and their cows for getting my hopes up), and realized it was alas yet another by product of a horrible day of amazing things that surely will never happen...

April 01 2008 at 10:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg

I posted this on my blog:
http://gregstechblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/bill-gates-renounces-windows.html

heh heh

April 01 2008 at 7:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dr. Who

Check this link out. http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/1541

April 01 2008 at 7:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hubartt

Check out keyonedemo.com/hubartt for inormation about the macthemes2.net site.

April 01 2008 at 6:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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hubartt

sorry, here is the link http://keyonedemo.com/hubartt/

April 01 2008 at 6:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Andi

I made a April Fools news my self in my German MACazin www.macazin.de, to be found here: http://www.macazin.de/allgemein/apple-lasst-farbige-imacs-wieder-auferstehen/010953/

It reports that Apple will revive the colored iMacs by offering its actual iMacs in various colors like a "Black-Edition", a "Chrome-Edition", a "Gold-Edition" and a "Classic Colors Edition"

April 01 2008 at 6:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eSystm

As I've said before, gullible people shouldn't use the internet on April 1st and Major companies shouldn't put out serious press releases on April 1st. Everything is a joke and fair game today. Haha...

I'm still a fan of Google paper from last year!

http://evansnyder.com

April 01 2008 at 4:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Murphy Mac

I tried, but based on the comments I got I'm guessing some people didn't click my link.

http://murphymac.com/last-post/

April 01 2008 at 4:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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