Are there any good April Fools jokes today? For example, a few years ago Google announced a sewage based ISP (i.e. flush some fiber optic cable down the toilet and they would fish it out and connect it).
The only one I have come across is IGN article about the Nintendo Virtual Boy Pro.
Last year, the Flying subreddit (a subredit for pilots, both hobbyists and professional ones) had a mod post about changing focus to the more numerous group: The passengers, giving the impression that they pivoted to travel blogging. Due to timezones, the april fools aspect wasn’t immediately clear, so the outrage was enormous.
My son (5 y/o) walked into my office and said “dad! I brought you something”. I assumed it was a piece of Easter candy because he had a hand behind his back. I asked him what did he have.
He turned around, let out a huge fart, and said “Fooled you!” Then he put on his cowboy hat and walked out of the room.
Yep, gottem.
Google Japan always pulls a joke about how they’ve developed a new better Google Japanese Keyboard.
So far there’s been a spoon you bend to different angles to select characters, and a giant keyboard key you wear as a hat and use by reaching up and spinning it to point in the cardinal direction of a given character, and then enter it by pressing the single giant key-hat thing.
It’s especially funny with Google being such a massive monolithic company, and there’s the Japanese branch just doing their own thing.
I also participate in the Titanfall modding scene, and each year for April fools the Northstar master server displays everything in uwu language.
Context: BBC broadcast this on April 1st, 1957. A lot of people fell for it, seeking advice on growing spaghetti trees on their own. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, so many British people were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water.
Spaghetti was unknown in the UK in 1957? My spaghetti history is woefully inadequate. The American school system failed me.
Now I Know?
I think The Lockpicking Lawyer (YouTuber)has consistently put out good April’s fools videos. I do have a sophomoric sense of humor though, and they are all based on innuendo.
The StreetComplete app for Open Street Map had its map cursor being a Nyan cat with a rainbow trail behind it.
The folks over at !lightnovels@ani.social have been weighing books all day which has been fun :P
Sadly I feel like this tradition is drying up more and more each year. I remember like 10-15 years ago tons of sites did really big things for the day. I honestly forgot today was April 1st until I saw this post. I miss it.
My kids mom made him a “cake”. It was actually meat loaf with dyed pink mashed potatoes instead of frosting.
Yes, I’ve been known to partake in some. Was sitting in the front seat of a bus, and the buses have a rule where, at all the train tracks, they’re supposed to briefly stop and open the bus doors to see if they hear any train coming before closing the door and driving onward again. The bus had stopped to do just that, and at that very moment, I played a train sound effect I had ready on my phone. The bus driver looks around and is weirded out by the “seeming invisible train”.
Some absolute lunatic on Sysadmin made a joke about Broadcom purchasing Veeam.
No one should ever joke about being purchased by Broadcom after what they are doing to VMware.
Windows is very clean and performs very well
