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List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by 91bananas »

M8 wrote: post #71
wippler wrote: post #26

Retro amazon, http://www.amazon.com/

This is embarrassing: if they are too afraid to actually re-style it for a day (with all potential losses), then they shouldn't bother with a static image. Sometimes you get too big to be cool.

I completely disagree. They run a system that is arguably very complex. I would not want to restyle my entire app (for a day) (so people like you would approve of it). They took something that was low risk, made it happen across the board, reliably. Site still works. It drums up chatter around offices. Makes people visit. Enjoy your misery.

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Post by smacktoward »

maaaats wrote: post #20

MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft... Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85... Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input…

But will it run Lotus 1-2-3? The saying was always "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run..."

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Post by hobarrera »

cies wrote: post #158
icebraining wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is "squatting" .dev meaningfully different from having .dev.com? People here give way too much importance to TLDs.

I know a lot of folks using .dev for locally running "development" instances of websites/apps. Maybe .local is now a better choice.

.local is reserved for mDNS. I'm not sure why you can't just use the host's real FQDN.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by dexcs »

Jedd wrote: post #316
dexcs wrote: post #14

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I wonder how many crazy entrepreneurs use april days for validating ideas they had without loosing they're credibility :)

To assist with you're credibility: "their" And 'losing', 'April', missing 'fools' (or 'first of').

You're the man.

Re: List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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Post by hobarrera »

tajen wrote: post #67

April fools I wanted the most: - NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities, - Water allowed on board of planes, - ISIS converting to Christianity, - Apple patenting the patent, - Snapchat releasing a payment system Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...

Keep in mind that this has changed a lot during the last decade.

December 28th traditionally received little to no attention in Argentina, and April 1st is gradually picking up.

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Post by davesque »

noipv4 wrote: post #318
pimlottc wrote: post #111

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SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...

did you load himem.sys? how about emm386.exe? does your sound card have an OPL3 or the OPL4 MIDI chip? Does your trident VESA card on the ISA slot have 1MB VRAM? stacker, drivespace or doublespace? choices! I just bought me a Seagate medalist 1-Gigabyte hard drive. Should I make it a master or a slave on the ATA bus? Make sure the Turbo button is pressed, if Doom is slow to load!

1 Gigabyte? Try 20 Megs...if that.
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