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Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by hedora »

cube00 wrote: post #10

I feel for the poor staff in those retail stores trying to work out what this product was that wasn't scanning while you've got a customer at your register getting more annoyed by the second.

Yeah; not sure how to work around that. They could have put a common, inexpensive SKU on it. Perhaps for a pencil or something known to be at stock at the retailers, and also likely to have loose inventory controls. (So, they end up with 10 extra pencils when they do inventory at the end of the month; not exactly a disaster for anyone involved.)

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#82

Post by wnevets »

Steltek wrote: post #70
wnevets wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be a better Aprils joke than the one being claimed

I disagree wholeheartedly. I'm pretty tired of fictional April Fool's joke. If you've got a good idea for a (harmless) prank, DO IT. Don't write up some lame webpage to make people think you did it.

> Don't write up some lame webpage to make people think you did it.

But are we sure this is just some lame webpage? If the prank is to gaslight the internet into believing the Microsoft Coffee prank took place wouldn't the news segment covering the prank also be fake? I have no idea if that was the anchor for that TV station in the 90s. That would be way more entertaining to me than some press release or fake product page.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#83

Post by deathgripsfan »

Diederich wrote: post #49

On Friday, 1-April-2005, I executed an Aprils fool joke inside of WalMart Stores, Inc., Information Systems Division that ended up going somewhat wrong. The director of our area, Network Engineering, was widely liked, and I'd worked for him, first directly when he was a manager, since 1997. Pretty chill guy, great sense of humor, effective leader. I particularly liked him because he gave my team, Network Management,…

It's pretty inspiring to know that, even though I'm not that smart, I must be Microsoft material.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#84

Post by judge2020 »

a2g4rAVy wrote: post #59
Geeflow wrote: post #34

Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)

SSL cert is very suspicious. It is by Google Trust Services LLC valid starting on Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:07:46 GMT. Video was uploaded to YouTube on April first. I would go with a fun joke.

I believe GTS certs are Google (employee) only, correct? The hostname also goes to 1e100.net.

  host `dig www.microsoftcoffee.org +short | tail -1`
  51.165.217.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pnatla-aa-in-f19.1e100.net.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#85

Post by space_ghost »

Steltek wrote: post #70
wnevets wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be a better Aprils joke than the one being claimed

I disagree wholeheartedly. I'm pretty tired of fictional April Fool's joke. If you've got a good idea for a (harmless) prank, DO IT. Don't write up some lame webpage to make people think you did it.

As someone else pointed out, this isn't just a lame webpage. The YT video of the news broadcast, if it was faked, would have been much more involved.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#86

Post by brundolf »

coding123 wrote: post #69
brundolf wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The news footage is pretty convincing

I'm assuming Seattlites would be able to confirm. However as much discussion we've had about the internet remembering everything, I can't find anything in Google to confirm "Microsoft Coffee" except for this site, discussion of it on Reddit 13 hours ago.

Remember that the prank preceded the mainstream web, and MS PR clearly went to great lengths to cover it up. I don't think the internet was "remembering everything" yet at that point

Re: Microsoft Coffee

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Post by praisewhitey »

a2g4rAVy wrote: post #59
Geeflow wrote: post #34

Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)

SSL cert is very suspicious. It is by Google Trust Services LLC valid starting on Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:07:46 GMT. Video was uploaded to YouTube on April first. I would go with a fun joke.

the webpage is hosted on Google Sites

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#88

Post by gruez »

a2g4rAVy wrote: post #59
Geeflow wrote: post #34

Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened? Conveniently, it was published on April 1st. The story itself would be a great April Fools' prank. :)

SSL cert is very suspicious. It is by Google Trust Services LLC valid starting on Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:07:46 GMT. Video was uploaded to YouTube on April first. I would go with a fun joke.

>SSL cert is very suspicious. It is by Google Trust Services LLC

There's nothing suspicious about that CA. If you do a search[1] you can see plenty certificates issued for benign sites. My guess is that's the CA for google related products? eg. GCP, app engine, or google site builder.

[1] https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=180754

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#89

Post by mmmmmbop »

JoshTko wrote: post #56

Volkswagen would have benefited from reading this article> Bill Gate's comment that the prank makes Microsoft look stupid applies pretty well to the Voltswagen stunt.

I'm seriously confused by the backlash to the Voltswagen stunt. The first thing I thought when I read the headline was that this was obviously an early April fool's day joke.

Perhaps people are just upset that they didn't get it and are blaming Volkswagen to avoid admitting that they were a bit too gullible around April 1st.

Re: Microsoft Coffee

#90

Post by gruez »

judge2020 wrote: post #84
a2g4rAVy wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SSL cert is very suspicious. It is by Google Trust Services LLC valid starting on Thu, 01 Apr 2021 02:07:46 GMT. Video was uploaded to YouTube on April first. I would go with a fun joke.

I believe GTS certs are Google (employee) only, correct? The hostname also goes to 1e100.net. host `dig www.microsoftcoffee.org +short | tail -1` 51.165.217.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pnatla-aa-in-f19.1e100.net.

>I believe GTS certs are Google (employee) only, correct?

Doesn't seem like it

https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25&iCAID=180754

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