April Fool's Day April Fool's Day April 1, 2002 was an April Fool's Day falling on a Monday. Hoaxes for this year included: ...more on Wikipedia about "April 1, 2002"
April 1 2004 was an April Fool's Day that fell on a Thursday. Hoaxes for this year included: ...more on Wikipedia about "April 1, 2004"
Ouija Board Comic Strips: In 2005, the comic strips FoxTrot, Pearls Before Swine, and Get Fuzzy all ran essentially the same gag involving a Ouija board telling one character to punch another. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "April 1, 2005"
Every April Fool's Day ( 1 April) since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC titled ARPAWOCKY. The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other dates. ...more on Wikipedia about "April 1st RFC"
April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbours, or sending them on fools' errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. ...more on Wikipedia about "April Fool's Day"
The Comic strip switcheroo (also known as the "Great Comics Switcheroonie" or the "Great April Fools Switcheroonie") was a series of jokes played out between comic strip writers and artists, without the foreknowledge of their editors, on 1 April 1997. According to Brian Walker's book The Comics: Since 1945, forty-six different syndicated artists participated. Note that several of these switches were one for one ( Mike Peters trading with Lynn Johnston, Scott Adams and Bil Keane, Jeff MacNelly and Mort Walker), while several comics did more of a three-way or multiple swap, and one artist just swapped hands for the day. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comic strip switcheroo"
Google has often adopted a light-veined approach in a variety of circumstances. Some of the following, while not being hoaxes, have gathered media and public attention. ...more on Wikipedia about "Google's hoaxes"
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The Great April Fools Switcheroonie was masterminded by comic strip creators Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott, creators of the Baby Blues daily newspaper comic strip. A surprisingly massive undertaking, it involved contacting dozens of comic strip creators and had them drawing somebody else's strips for one day, April 1 1997, widely known as April Fool's Day. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great April Fools Switcheroonie"
The Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer is a fictional animal invented by Discover magazine as an April Fool's Day joke. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer"
The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP for short) is a protocol for controlling, monitoring and diagnosing coffee pots. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol"
IP over Avian Carriers or RFC 1149 is a humorous Request for Comments document issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force. It describes how Internet Protocol traffic may be carried by homing pigeons. It was written by D. Waitzman and released on April Fool's Day 1990, one of the April 1st RFCs. ...more on Wikipedia about "IP over Avian Carriers"
Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXes with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kremvax"
San Serriffe is a fictional island nation created in the spirit of April Fool's Day. An elaborate description of the nation, using puns and plays on words relating to typography (such as " serif"), was reported as straight news, apparently fooling many readers who did not understand the joke. ...more on Wikipedia about "San Serriffe"
Shuttle Baikal was an April Fool's Day 2000 joke by administrator of the website buran.ru , Vadim Luckashevich. The article was of a high quality, but contained a discreet clue that it was a joke, as the background of the page featured a low-contrast image upon which was written "С первым апреля!" (Russian: "Merry April Fool's Day!"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Shuttle Baikal"
Sidd Finch was the subject of a notorious article by George Plimpton in the April 1, 1985 issue of Sports Illustrated. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sidd Finch"
The Spaghetti tree is a fictitious tree, a joke designed to fool the gullible who do not know how spaghetti is produced. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spaghetti tree"
UTF-9 (9- bit Unicode Transformation Format) and UTF-18 (18- bit Unicode Transformation Format) are two specifications for encoding unicode on systems where the nonet (nine bit group) is a better fit for the native word size than the octet such as the PDP-10. Both encodings were specified in RFC 4042 which was released on April 1 2005. The encodings suffer from a number of flaws and it is reasonable to assume that they were intended as a joke. However unlike some of the "specifications" given in other April 1st RFCs they are actually technically possible to implement. They are not endorsed by the Unicode Consortium. ...more on Wikipedia about "UTF-9 and UTF-18"
Write Only Memory (WOM) is the logical converse of Read Only Memory (ROM). It is generally only proposed as a joke since there is no practical use for such a thing; since write-only memory cannot, by definition, be read, any information that is written to it will simply be lost. ...more on Wikipedia about "Write Only Memory"
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