List of April Fools' Day Announcements

Post by amyjess » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:57 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #210

dagw wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This battle was lost the second people started using .net and .org for things that wheren't related network technologies and non-profit orgranizations respectively. The nail was driven into the coffin when people started using country tld's for sites that had nothing to do with that country. If anything this might be step back in the right direction. Whereas I cannot tell anything about the nature or origin of a site…

Or .Sony, except there is no guarantee Sony corp actually registered that TLD.

Post by SilasX » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

infinity wrote: post #176

The german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) claims that there is an inititiative to block cat images from the web due to excessive bandwidth consumption (article in german): http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/die-digital-d... The other content to be blocked are 'theses concerning the future of journalism' ...

Post by fudgy73 » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

Post by forlulz » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 3:00 PM UTC

mdekkers wrote: post #262

conroy wrote: post #3

The New Audi A8 http://www.audi.jp/gohan/

lol, in japan, a new car comes with a branded spankpaddle

Post by JamyDev » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 3:04 PM UTC

CatsoCatsoCatso wrote: post #255

kissickas wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always thought "do a barrel roll" was kind of stupid, but it's cool that it still works on com.google.

Strangely "tilt" sets it back to normal but keeps the domain, then when you change the search query it flicks back to backwards mode.