nightfox
Apr 1 2007, 11:34 PM
Ok, Google, you guys come up with a lot of funny tricks! Lets take a look at this year's pranks: 1. Free broadband called "Google TiSP" QUOTE Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. See it: http://www.google.com/tisp2. Gmail Paper. Gmail may have been launched on April Fools, but it's no joke. Gmail Paper, obviously is. QUOTE Everyone loves Gmail. But not everyone loves email, or the digital era. What ever happened to stamps, filing cabinets, and the mailman? Well, you asked for it, and it’s here. We’re bringing it back. See it: http://gmail.google.com and http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.htmlExcellent pranks this year! Gmail Paper would be really cool though! It'd save me from having to waste my own paper and ink!  I'm willing to wait 2-4 business days for my emails! lol One question though, why didn't they give us 3 gigs?? I thought they would last year when Gmail turned 3, but obviously, the 3 gig mark is a while off. [N]F
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dhanesh
Apr 2 2007, 01:43 AM
Lol, i kinda liked the TISP version of the april fools prank. Frankly i was prompted to click the clink on the google page because it said "FREE" lol, not realizing the fact that it was the month of fools  .. Here are a few other sites that feasted on the April fools prank show. LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK <- My Fav LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK Source: Neowin.net Regards Dhanesh.
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Vandal
Apr 2 2007, 03:37 AM
Man, I was so pumped when I first saw the "New! Get FREE breakthrough broadband" link. What a total let-down. I figured I'd finally be one of the first people to try out a new google product. Touche once again Google, you beat me every year. Their best one had to be 2000's "Google MentalPlex" though, which was search technology that supposedly read the user's mind to determine what the user wanted to search for.
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nightfox
Apr 2 2007, 03:44 AM
QUOTE(dhanesh @ Apr 1 2007, 09:43 PM)  Lol, i kinda liked the TISP version of the april fools prank. Frankly i was prompted to click the clink on the google page because it said "FREE" lol, not realizing the fact that it was the month of fools .. Yeah, same here... I didn't realize it was April Fools until like 7:00 tonight and I was thinking about the Gmail Paper and then it hit me!  Would be cool, though they'd use massive amounts of paper and postage! [N]F
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velma
Apr 2 2007, 05:31 AM
Hi, I was working when I saw the prank on my bosses computer, At first I could not belive it for itis like a dream come true and then I started doubting it and then like a dolt I realised that I was made a fool on April Fool's day but that was a brilliant joke. I mean Hat's off to Google for making life a bit more fun . But I wonder how many gullible people are still waiting for the product to launch Anyway It was exciting to think of the loo powered internet but I guess we will have wait for another decade or two until the thing becomes solid. Cheers 
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Niru
Apr 2 2007, 05:16 PM
hahaha!~! I was also a small victim of that GMail paper!! Started one topic here at Astahost itself!!
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livingston
Apr 2 2007, 06:18 PM
google is strictily following its policy of fooling its users every year with its Pranks and make the ignorant user belive some cool ideas.
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FirefoxRocks
Apr 2 2007, 11:57 PM
I actually read it off of Wikipedia before I visited the Google website that day! I love the PigeonRank as well as Google MentalPlex! Here's a link to all Google April Fool's jokes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes
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Orca239
Apr 3 2007, 12:50 AM
lol, wow. There were alot of sites that did April Fool's jokes yesterday. One site (www.dothackers.net) put up a big "We have been shut down by <insert company name here>. Lol, when it came back up everyone was ranting and crap, lol. Another one (www.cyberconnects.com) said they were going to release a much anticipated (by fans of that site at least) 3D game "in the next 24 hours", oh man those guys were ticked off when they found out. And then a Wikia (dothack wikia) changed all the series names to some guy's name and put up fake pics. I actually didn't pull any pranks this year, lol. I shoulda thought up something.
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xboxrulz
Apr 3 2007, 02:02 AM
Google is like the God of April Fools xboxrulz
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Impious
Sep 12 2007, 01:52 AM
LoL =) That is really funny, here in Brazil we have april fools day, it is called "dia da mentira", but it's not so common as in US Some people anjoy doing it, but almost anybody remember that is april fools..
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Jeigh
Apr 7 2007, 11:19 AM
Hahahaha I love April Fools jokes online. It sucked that it was on a Sunday this year as I seem to have missed a lot of them, and a lot of the sites that normally do them that are not updated on weekends seemed to just skip it this year... But yea regardless the google ones were killer haha. I saw a few others but forget the sites they were on, if they pop into my head I'll post the links. Oh collegehumor.com had a splash page up that was one of those domain expired for sale pages haha. I mean I knew it wasn't true but I thought it was witty so that was nice. I still don't think any will replace "I heart ponies!!!111 LOL!!!11ONE!!" from slashdot last year(two years ago? whenever) in my heart though.
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Grafitti
Apr 7 2007, 03:11 AM
I had just been reminded that it was April Fools Day before i got online, so i was in a skeptical frame of mind. The Gpaper thing though, I almost fell for it. But I figured I might as well get some fun out of it, so printed it out and posted it on the bulletin board, and forwarded it to all my coworkers. They got so excited about it, i still haven't told them it was a prank.
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Orca239
Apr 7 2007, 12:09 AM
QUOTE(Quatrux @ Apr 3 2007, 03:16 PM) I didn't get fooled by google or gmail at that day, but I got fooled by Apex DC, I went to their website apexdc.net and saw that a new version of this application is available, so I downloaded it and thought I have the new version, but this was just a prank.. I didn't get, thought it was a bug or something, when I went to the news and saw the date it was released On April 1st, so I got pranked by them.. Don't you think a prank where they "suspended" all of our accounts would be a little much? Some people might have sites that would be badly effected by that, lol. But uh, yeah I'm sure some site out there beat Google in its own way... just wouldn't have fooled as many people I guess.
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SilverFox
Apr 3 2007, 08:27 PM
That was funny, however I was hoping Asta would've had an April Fools joke that all our hosting accounts got suspended. At first I heard about Google's prank I thought it was real kinda...then I saw it wasn't .
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