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April Fools' Day On The Web 2008 (the most complete list)

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  • SantaClauz, on 04/01/2008, -11/+150Youtube's stunt was pretty *****' awesome as it is, whose gonna top it?

    *Hopes that Maddox does something again*
    • mundus, on 05/15/2008, -3/+16Wikipedia's list is pretty awesome too:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1%2C_2008
    • thailand1972, on 04/01/2008, -2/+83Not as good as Digg's April Fool where I couldn't post a comment! Oh wait..
      • JasonMaloney101, on 04/01/2008, -7/+5I logged in just to digg your comment.
    • Archaic1, on 04/01/2008, -2/+44I'd be happy with Maddox just updating his site for once, even if it wasn't a special April Fools update -_-
      • ghm101, on 04/01/2008, -0/+11Why don't you drop him an email ;)
        • busek0, on 04/01/2008, -0/+9He did update: News (04-01-08): What?
        • bobmckenzie, on 04/01/2008, -0/+5Yeah great update Maddox. . . . .
        • picsectionpleez, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4+1 You beat me to it. Maddox just loves emails doesn't he?
      • socketman, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4Yeah that maddox is a lazy bastard when it comes to updating his site. "What?"
        Oh well. That is true maddox style for you.
        • mrASSMAN, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1He made his money with the book.. he doesn't care about the site anymore. A shame.. I remember discovering the site years ago when I was bored and I searched for "best site in the world".. google turned up his site and I became hooked with his writing style..
    • TheWorm, on 04/01/2008, -9/+5uk.youtube.com's prank is even better. All featured videos redirect to Rick Roll. I never thought that I would get Rick Rolled by Youtube!
      • TSSaloic, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4That is international, not just in the UK.
    • dankenstein, on 04/01/2008, -0/+8From the site:

      News (04-01-08): What?

      At least he updated.
      • tprout, on 04/02/2008, -0/+0from the site:
        "News (04-01-08): April Fool's day is when I say it is--which is when I'll be done with my update."
    • SheridanPassell, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Also, Ron Howard has taken up directing duties on Grand Theft Auto. http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=285
    • fhornplayer, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1Your gonna top it.
    • muffinmonk, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1WoW has trouble with its servers and I CAN'T PLAY!! Is this some kind of cruel hoax!?!
  • clesch, on 04/01/2008, -28/+106Honestly, Digg should add a "Bury as April's Fool" button just for today.
    • apache2, on 04/01/2008, -8/+12Come on dude, we can screw around 1 day out of the year, we deserve it!
    • greatgatsbyII, on 04/01/2008, -1/+8I want a digg as April fool button!!
    • Jektal, on 04/01/2008, -0/+63I want a "Bury as April's Fools" button which actually Diggs it
      • BTraina, on 04/01/2008, -8/+3and a digg as April's Fools button which actually buries it.
      • cliffdogg, on 04/01/2008, -3/+1Well played, sir
      • LokitheComplex, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1Yup they should have flipped buried and dugg.
    • orangekid13, on 04/01/2008, -0/+5um, they do, go look. no, seriously.
    • RyeBrye, on 04/01/2008, -3/+2They already did. It's located here: http://tinyurl.com/2q9j9y
      (the query string is too long to paste as is)

      • DoctorFaust, on 04/01/2008, -1/+6The most obvious Rick-Roll ever? On April Fool's Day no less?
    • OmarJasso, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1Seriously, I almost don't even want to be on digg today. I trust nobody!!!
  • Disgod, on 04/01/2008, -9/+1Bungie has put an image of Master Chief in the world map of Halo 3's matchmaking lobby in Europe. Fricking hilarious.
  • BeeArePro, on 04/01/2008, -7/+457The best one I've seen is actually on CNN. It's an article on Hilary Clinton and her campaign, and how they plan on going 'all the way'.
    • peterjmag, on 04/01/2008, -4/+21Oh, what I would give to find out that her whole campaign has just been one elaborate ruse...
    • AndrewDB, on 04/01/2008, -3/+4I can't digg you up enough on that one BAP.
    • NyteStarNyne, on 04/01/2008, -0/+13The Clinton camp are good sports for playing along with this prank.
      • xu1993, on 04/01/2008, -2/+0The Clinton camp really believes that.
  • Overcyn, on 04/01/2008, -4/+197i got rickrolled by youtube :(
  • Asheis, on 04/01/2008, -4/+10Yeah, the youtube thing is classic. How many people have they rickrolled, even in the past hour or so?
    Also, I didn't see anything for digg!! sad times. Being one of the top websites on the whole internet, they should do SOMETHING. Have they done anything in the past? I started browsing digg a couple of months after april.
  • killerstache, on 04/01/2008, -4/+38I like CollegeHumor's. It has a fake myspace of a girl whose dad bought her collegehumor.com.
    • jstem1994, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1I check it everyday from work for pix. Just did, but it refreshed to normal before I could finish reading.
      Never mind, see the button to read again. Duh.
  • toxictonic, on 04/01/2008, -9/+6http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index. ...
  • Natta88, on 04/01/2008, -6/+0surfthechannel.com has a pretty decent one - fooled me anyway http://digg.com/movies/Indiana_Jones_Screener_Leak ...
  • Sub7, on 04/01/2008, -6/+7Wow has a new hero class 'Bard' and they're bringing the game to consoles apparantly...
    • Etchii, on 04/01/2008, -0/+5 there is a hilarious picture of a guy playing with his keyboard guitar hero style, scoring sick crits =P

      • Wesside, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2I actually hope they bring out bard, that'd be badass.
        • texpundit, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Only if the Bard is as cool as the one in Bard's Tale.

          I loved that game.
    • LocoMan, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2That's not the only aprils fool thing they have. If you go to the forums, everyone's avatar was changed to a bear, the VP's avatars to walruses and the mod avatars to buckets, also it randomly inserts some words (lol, locat, roflmao, lulz, kekekekeke and so on) at some points on every post, making it hard to take any post seriously today.. 8^)
      • MadEnvoy, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1"...making it hard to take any post seriously today..." - isn't that an oxymoron?
    • poordavey, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1www.wowhead.com has also been redesigned to look like www.thottbot.com :P

  • gorfdorf, on 04/01/2008, -4/+5Youtube's rickrolling got me and Livejournal also put up a rickroll by announcing a new staff member which ends up linking you to a rickroll page. Blizzard.com has a good gag up for fans of their Diablo series - 'The Diablo Loot Piñata' too. Also, check out the fake Pickleman beta test game on I-Mockery which glitches out once you start playing and then puts you face to face with a fully functional version of 'E.T.' for the Atari 2600 (widely regarded as the worst game ever) with a few alterations. http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/pickleman-et
  • darkfyrern, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5www.fpsgod.com had a good one with cs getting shut down >
  • chris9902, on 04/01/2008, -17/+32I hate this stupid day.
    • thailand1972, on 04/01/2008, -1/+13But it brings out geek humour, and big corporates can use this day to show their "human" side! Oh.....ok, I see your point.
    • Ajajadude, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Tell me about it. I got a newsletter e-mail from Grist.com saying Al Gore decided to jump into the presidential race as an Independent. I about killed myself.
  • whiteknives, on 04/01/2008, -5/+4HOLY CRAP. Audio advertisement FTL.

    ...scared the ***** out of me.
    • AndrewDB, on 04/01/2008, -2/+15Firefox + Adblock + Adblock plus, you'll never see another ad again.
      • HolyChimp, on 04/01/2008, -0/+4Don't need Adblock if you have Adblock Plus...
        • AndrewDB, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1It actually has things that Adblock Plus forgets, so I run both. :]
  • cinder, on 04/01/2008, -6/+138Today renders the Internet useless. See you on April 2.
    • olego, on 04/01/2008, -8/+6Wow, is your trust in your own ability to discern the truth really that low?
      • yarukizero, on 04/01/2008, -2/+2My willingness to put up with that crap is that low. Doubly so because of people taking the above kind of attitude towards the whole thing.
      • cinder, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2Wow, do you always make assumptious insults in the form of questions? Or only on April 1?
    • hiro, on 04/01/2008, -3/+2Nah, April Fools are only valid up to midday, after which the perpetrator is the fool. And as the civilised world is already past midday we're safe lol
    • IEatHamburgers, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1It renders the whole damn media useless. You can't even wake up without seeing a news story about furry trout!
    • alenox, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1did u see the penguin video?! that was some realistic CGI ha ha
  • mrtracy, on 04/01/2008, -3/+14Seriously though.. I want to be a Virgle Pioneer...
    • olego, on 04/01/2008, -6/+3You can be a virgin pioneer, though. You pass all the requirements anyway!
  • ma11man, on 04/01/2008, -4/+3Users have reported that this story may be an April Fools prank
  • Jovensdesciple, on 04/01/2008, -8/+1And now... here's a song by a gay guy. I didn't like any of that.
  • Mistle, on 04/01/2008, -3/+29It seems April Fools has turned into one massive Rick Roll. All my friends are giving me links, and when they turn out to be a Rick Roll they're like, "April Fools!".
    I'm just like, 'Dude, I get Rick Roll'd every second day. That's hardly an April Fools!"
    • gorfdorf, on 04/01/2008, -1/+28Yeah, I'm pretty sure April 1, 2008 will be forever remembered as the Day of the Rickroll.
    • userperson, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1I was disappointed this didn't have a Rick Astley reference. I was sure the follow up would've been one.
      Hell! it should've been something better, that was weak.
      the Virgle guys didn't flinch, youtube topped everyone.
  • mbhp, on 04/01/2008, -6/+1http://www.dramaticprairiedog.com/funny-videos/apr ...
  • MetalLizard, on 04/01/2008, -3/+15The YTMND website IS actually getting shut down. That is what makes it so damn funny.
    • moush, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1When someone first told me YTMND was dead, I told them it happened 2 years ago. I didn't know they were talking literally.
  • eeePPP, on 04/01/2008, -2/+3i wonder how long before we have to buy gifts on april fools. im gonna buy stock in rick'roll dolls.
  • kravex, on 04/01/2008, -2/+3http://digg.com/nintendo/Yoshi_found_in_Super_Mari ...
    Yoshi in SMG...
    • Philbert, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3I dugg that for being a well done prank
  • salocepy, on 04/01/2008, -1/+89I wonder if The Onion will report on real news today.
    • AndrewDB, on 04/01/2008, -2/+2No, but CNN might report on political news that's not Clinton related.
    • moush, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1Maybe they'll be funny.
  • Sashwan, on 04/01/2008, -7/+9*cough* Digg's comment system *cough*
  • shopalop, on 04/01/2008, -5/+0I wonder which are the best? anyone have any good april fool jokes?
  • Oppslagsverk, on 04/01/2008, -2/+3Gmail custom time would have been ingenious!
  • reekon, on 04/01/2008, -1/+8gDay, Search tomorrow’s web, today!
    Love the quote: “This is old news. I read about this announcement yesterday on Google.”
  • batTUrd, on 04/01/2008, -1/+20deviantART changed everyone's avatar to this: http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/herduliek.gif
    • batTUrd, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1and the Wookieepedia homepage is in aurebesh
    • Greybird007, on 04/01/2008, -1/+2Thus showing again, if anyone was ever in doubt, that deviantART is run by a pack of puerile asses. (I have an account there. Fortunately, I've never sent them any money.)

      I absolutely LOATHE April first.
  • TyroPyro, on 04/01/2008, -7/+1This site is horrible and has talking ads
    • AndrewDB, on 04/01/2008, -2/+9Again.

      Firefox + Adblock + Adblock plus, you'll never see another ad again.
      • ihavebeenseen, on 04/01/2008, -3/+1what if M$ put ad block into IE8?... bye bye google
        • Jektal, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Microsoft will never implement built-in ad-blocking, since Google's primary advertising competitor (and I think the company Digg uses for ads) -is- Microsoft
  • markrogerpollak, on 04/01/2008, -1/+0see http://www.offplanpropertyexchange.com/grandprix - this is an intention to sponsor the scottish grand prix in a few years time - hilarious
  • jozb, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1Press 2 now!
  • thailand1972, on 04/01/2008, -1/+25The day RickRoll jumps the shark is the day the internet will start to feel fresh again.
  • mafus07, on 04/01/2008, -2/+0the best opportunity for make a fool someone you want. it is a best day for me
  • mal1964, on 04/01/2008, -7/+1Do you guys hear about digg and youtube are going to work together, "YouDigg" I don't know it sounds kinda dumb
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
  • Metalcard, on 04/01/2008, -1/+5http://apps.myspace.com - This was listed as an April Fools, looks real to me.
  • greatgatsbyII, on 04/01/2008, -1/+9We're no strangers to love.....
  • doc125, on 04/01/2008, -0/+5Gamespot has fake articles on the front page...wait, hows that different from any other day?
  • RobSaint, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3http://ilounge.com has a good April fools joke up on their site...
    "iLounge sold to Apple, replaced by Hot News
    Following its purchase and shutdown of pesky gossip site Think Secret, Apple today announced that it has acquired and replaced leading independent iPod and iPhone site iLounge.com with Hot News, an existing collection of suspiciously upbeat reviews penned by Apple's favorite writers. Based on preproduction testing conducted by Apple in January 2008, the new iLounge web site will be 4.3 times faster at publishing positive stories about Apple, and 2.5 times better at deleting iTunes bug reports filed by users."
  • thehotelguru, on 04/01/2008, -2/+0Anyone seen the one on digg on Terminal Five?
    http://digg.com/travel_places/Mithraic_Temple_Disc ...

    I love AFD
  • venturetothetop, on 04/01/2008, -1/+0http://www.fontoon.com - told its members it was giving away the site for FREE, only to have a traffic spike that melted the server!
  • rogerborn, on 04/01/2008, -2/+1Go read about Steve Jobs Quitting Apple over at MyMac.com
  • NinjaPirateDude, on 04/01/2008, -0/+17the xkcd thing totally messed me up!
  • chrispix, on 04/01/2008, -7/+2Is Pizza Hut really going to change its name to Pasta Hut? Seems that making the name change on April 1st is a hoax? Maybe not? http://digg.com/business_finance/Pizza_Hut_Now_Pas ...
    • Philbert, on 04/01/2008, -0/+2I don't know, if you Google "pasta hut" there are quite a number of articles about it from the past week or so, it would yhave to be a pretty elaborate prank.
      • chrispix, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Yeah, but April 1st to make the change.. Is it real, or another gmail non-prank.
    • Shawn4168, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3Interesting how you try to get people to Digg your crappy articles like that.
  • kitkatsavvy, on 04/01/2008, -1/+1mmm i couldnt even find that 'search google future' thing anywhere on the google index page...buggers me where u can even click to find that prank..and yeah that virgle pioneer thing is crap...i still dont understand why people pull pranks on each other for anyway - with me having pretty bad social skills and me used to being serious about everything - ive lightened up a bit but i still dont understand why normal people do it.. mmm odd
  • brstilson, on 04/01/2008, -1/+3YouDigg actually sounds like a good idea.
  • Tam2, on 04/01/2008, -7/+3http://www2.tam2.co.uk - Aprils Fool :)
  • pcj201, on 04/01/2008, -1/+0like it
  • cdtoad, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1the web is educational! ha April fools!
  • hutchy, on 04/01/2008, -0/+3all revision3 flash videos today are mirrored (reversed). Guess this "most complete list" missed that

    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2qwdir7&s=3
    • w3v3, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1Annoying as ***** though... They could have just announced a new show or something...
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