where's mah jokes?

April 2, 2008 2:45 PM

What were yesterday's best online April Fools pranks?

Virgle was hilarious, and arbroath had a few stories, but there must be more... remember /.'s amazing 'zomg pon1es'?

posted by rhinny to computers & internet (23 comments total)

This Muppets outtake is excellent.
posted by Nelsormensch at 2:48 PM on April 2 [5 favorites]

All the front page YouTube videos Rick Rolling.
posted by lockestockbarrel at 2:49 PM on April 2

ThinkGeek still has up their April Fools front page. Past ones here. Wikipedia has a list of pranks.
posted by ALongDecember at 2:56 PM on April 2

Did you miss Metafilter yesterday? Click "Make It Start" at the bottom of the page under Links.
posted by ALongDecember at 2:57 PM on April 2

Effigy2000 linked to this a couple of days ago which seemed to be a fairly nice compendium.
posted by quin at 2:59 PM on April 2

seth's blog
posted by milestogo at 3:00 PM on April 2

Well, mine wasn't very good. And it apparently offended the butt of the joke enough that I was asked to take it down.
posted by luriete at 3:03 PM on April 2

The best and also cruelest was that of Flickr. But the target audience of this joke was small.

Before Flickr, there was GNE, the GameNeverEnding.

On April 1st, the game came back to life. A couple developers from flickr ported the code and restored the old and beloved online game. Word got out and a mysterious email was planted.

All the old GNEers showed up. Waxy.org wrote about this too.

This morning, on April 3rd, they shut it back down.

The GNE is sleeping.
posted by vacapinta at 3:09 PM on April 2

Vacapinta, that's messed up. I was a really early user of GNE's alpha/beta & I had no idea about this. And I missed it! That sucks.
posted by luriete at 3:12 PM on April 2

The Marketplace one was pretty awesome.
posted by oflinkey at 3:19 PM on April 2

Oh, I've been had. Har!
posted by luriete at 3:21 PM on April 2

Classics Today slipped this album review in with the rest of their daily batch.
posted by Wolfdog at 3:54 PM on April 2

I fooled everyone visiting my blog with this language one. I wanted to publicize it more widely but was slightly afraid of a libel suit from Merriam-Webster.
posted by laconic titan at 4:14 PM on April 2

I enjoyed the one thought up by randall munroe. When you went to questionablecontent.net to see the latest comic, you got dinosaur comic. Going to the dinosaur comic (qwantz.com) got you XKCD and to finish the circle, going to XKCD got you questionablecontent.net.

personally i didn't care for google's "joke".
posted by silkygreenbelly at 4:19 PM on April 2

My favorite: The Battle of Amon Hen.
posted by cmgonzalez at 4:35 PM on April 2

For Javascript geeks: John Resig, the guy behind jQuery posted Classy Query which makes jQuery big, bloated and enterprise ready. "Frequently it was found that the concise method names of jQuery provided too much confusion to developers just getting started with the library."
posted by kamelhoecker at 4:47 PM on April 2

Oh, I've been had. Har!

No, it really happened.
posted by jessamyn at 5:06 PM on April 2

Bringing back GNE transcended April Fool's Day. It was the most fun I've had online in ages.
posted by waxpancake at 7:17 PM on April 2

Self-link ahead: Starbucks Achieves Critical Mass
posted by deCadmus at 7:25 PM on April 2

Woot.com had a woot-off composed entirely Black & Decker 20 watt power backup battery packs. People were angry.
posted by Alison at 7:55 PM on April 2

Etsy had a link in the nav bar between "News" and "My Etsy" that said "Waffles." Click on it, and there were...waffles. Photos of them. Under each was a link to "Flag this as not a waffle." Subtle and cute.
posted by TochterAusElysium at 9:30 PM on April 2

Google Calendar's Wake Up Kit to help people wake up on time.
posted by hellopanda at 12:25 AM on April 3

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/foos-fool-turns-foul/2008/04/01/1206850876859.html
posted by edtut at 5:28 AM on April 3