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Embracing the Fun: Share Your Favorite Tech April Fools'!

Andrew Bone on April 01, 2024

Ah, April Fools' Day—a time when the tech world unleashes its creativity, blending humour with innovation to concoct some of the most memorable pra...
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Ben Halpern

Google Gmail: Two decades later, a look at Gmail — Google’s best April Fool’s joke - The Economic Times

Gmail started on April 1, 2004, as a free service boasting 1 gigabyte of storage per account. This may sound like nothing now, but in that time, it was considered a massive amount of email capacity. ETtech looks at its two-decade-long journey.

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Andrew Bone

The longest con of all, I bet they're really laughing at us 😅

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Andrew Bone

Here is the video for project Virgle, I can't believe it was 16 years ago!

Richard Branson on Virgle - YouTube

As of midnight PST, April 1st, 2008, we have stopped accepting applications.For more information about Project Virgle, please visit http://www.google.com/vir...

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Also honourable mention to Google Tulip

Introducing Google Tulip - YouTube

We're excited to announce Google Tulip.Decoding the language of flowers has been a decades-long challenge. But that changes today. Thanks to great advancemen...

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Michael Tharrington

Lol, Project Virgle is freaking great. 🤣

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James Robert Lund III

I told my team I was quitting today

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Andrew Bone

How long did you keep it up?

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James Robert Lund III

Not long, a few minutes at least lol

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Michael Tharrington

TIL about Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol and the origins of some of the stranger error codes like 418 I'm a teapot 🫖

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Andrew Bone

One of my faves, my work quiz team is called four eighteen 😅

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Thomas Bnt

Execute your best ideas with Google Registry's .exe top-level domain

.exe allows you to execute your best ideas and make them a reality.

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Thomas Bnt

Or this one !

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a.infosecflavour

7 years ago, from Amazon

heh?

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Oleg Nenashev

For Gradle lovers and haters, there is dev.to/onenashev/kradle-90-revolut... . Note that there is some truth to any joke ;)

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OLOSHOFAWAS

I’m still learning full-stack development. I told my dad every day that I think I have memory loss, and he advised me to concentrate and put in more effort.