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List of April Fools' Day Announcements

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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...

"Apple patenting the patent" -> hahaha, that would be a great idea, coming from any major tech company hold thousands of patents :)

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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…

Awesome! Would this have happened under Balmer ? Nadella is truly changing Microsoft into a "cool" company.

Yes, of course it would have. It's not like this required executive approval to do. It was probably some WP team that wanted to have a little fun.

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https://com.google - Google showing off their new gTLD in a silly manner.

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

That actually reminded me of a bug I submitted a while ago. It appears to be fixed now, but I was pretty surprised at the answer they provided at the time. When instant search first came out, anything that auto-completed to "do a barrel roll" would initiate the animation. It's such a popular term that simply typing "Do a" was enough to trigger it as it was the first result.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/R5A...

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One of my favorite April 1 things is Wikipedia's bizarre frontpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page The featured article, picture, and various highlights on the frontpage are always delightful. And true and educational! Check it out.

The cake is a pie!

Also whoa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_cake

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