Happy April Fools: April 1, 2008

[MacRumors]

Today is April 1, 2008 and represents April Fools' Day -- so readers should be wary of hoaxes and claims at both news and rumor sites today. Today also represents Apple's 32nd anniversary. Apple was founded on April 1st, 1976 by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

While we avoid tainting our news stories with April Fools jokes, we've posted hidden April Fools' pages in the past:

2007. MacRumored - MacRumors circa early 1990s
2006. MacRumors Page 3 - Mac News and Rumors You Can't Believe

April Fools around the web:

- Youtube is Rick Rolling their Featured Videos.
- Gmail Custom Time
- gDay with MATE

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MacRumors does not participate in April Fools news stories. All stories posted today are real.

Article Link: Happy April Fools: April 1, 2008

 

[Chundles]

Heh, April 1st is almost over here.

Typical MacRumours - always late to the party, I've known about the iPhone Dev Team quitting for about a week now. Where were you MacRumours? Where were you?

 

[quigleybc]

Fool me once...shame on me

Fool me twice...

nah...I like being fooled by MR....

 

[cohibadad]

MBA hacked in 2 minutes!

 

[arn]

I find most April Fools internet pranks exceedingly not-funny... but the one that I really liked was Slashdot's OMG Ponies! redesign a few years ago:

http://www.metlin.org/content/blog/omgponies.jpg

arn

 

[leigh.munro]

Apple to release PC version of OSX in Q3

Apple is set to launch an assault on the world's biggest computer marketplace with plans to release a version of its new Leopard operating system for PCs.

www.itwire.com/content/view/17413/53

Very likely to be a April Fools prank......

 

[MacNut]

So where is our fools this year.

 

[arn]

YouTube is rick-rolling all their featured videos:

http://youtube.com/

arn

 

[Doctor Q]

I assume that it's not really April Fool's Day, and that anybody who says it is is merely trying to fool us because it's April Fool's Day!

 

[benlee]

YouTube is rick-rolling all their featured videos:

http://youtube.com/

arn

That is really funny. How long have they been doing that so far?

 

[ntrigue]

YouTube is rick-rolling all their featured videos:

http://youtube.com/

arn

Bravo. Love to see people not take themselves too seriously.

Anyone have a link to Google Broadband that you flush down the toilet to install? That was brilliant!

 

[MacNut]

Also DiggNation was sold to Fox News.

 

[iMacZealot]

Are the user titles going to change this year? That's always a hoot...

 

[yoyo5280]

gDay with MATE

Lol my friend thought it was really real when I emailed it to him

http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html

 

[mcarnes]

I've been rick rolled. Again. But this time by YouTube.

 

[grappler]

I actually pulled that custom time stunt to win a contest in my econ class (first to submit answer to brainteaser after specified time).

That was easy with a desktop mail client. Just change the time on my machine before hitting 'send'. Turns out his machine just used the time headers it was given.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Does that mean G6's today?

 

[carve]

happy april fool's day you guys!

 

[David G.]

Does that mean G6's today?

No, I have some prerelease hardware with the specs in my sig.
Uh oh, Steve Jobs just came in the room! I'm sooo gonna get fired.

 

[Peace]

Happy April Fools Day!!

Today is also my 3rd anniversary as a registered user..woo hoo..

 

[appleguru1]

That gmail feature would be really useful ya know I used to send papers/etc late to teachers all the time.. just rolled back my system clock

 

[Sun Baked]

Who is the volunteer MacRumors fool for the day?

Personally ... whoever it is deserves to be the fool for the entire month of April.

 

[carve]

haha..iLounge's website is hilarious!

 

[dubhe]

For another April Fool, check out www.mobilegazette.com all about telephore advertising!

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Aye...most of it is pretty lame!

That said, just saw flying penguins on a report on BBC Breakfast news this morning....that made me chuckle!

Have a good one!