April Fools' Day makes the internet cry

Did you fall for it? The internet didn't really cry, we were just kidding. You gotta be on your toes! And just in case you managed to blissfully glide through this April 1st with nary a fooling, here's a small taste of what you were missing:

Read - Space bot demands to be called "Dextre the Magnificent"
Read - Windows XP running on the iRex iLiad
Read - iPhone_iTouch_2.0_Beta_5a225c_ipsw
Read - Free Nokia 6630 bundled with Girl Talk mag for tweens
Read - Google's gDay with MATE searches the future
Read - Toshiba announces HD DVD+
Read - Think Geek's Betamax to HD-DVD Converter
Read - Qualcomm's HandSolo
Read - FireFold's Ultra High-Performance Coat Hanger
Read - Virgin and Google form Virgil for Mars expedition
Read - Xbox 360 Wireless Helmet, Board Game

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:05AM]

Thehundreds.com had a good one, saying they sold the company to LVXHM?

Also, youtube got us all real good.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:18AM]

haha, Youtube won the day.

[holycow Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:21AM]

Risk Astley ftw!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:49AM]

everyone got rickrolled ftw

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 4:39AM]

It has to be the BBC's flying penguins thing. I lol'd.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:07AM]

Don't forget about Gmail's Custom Time:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:32AM]

I was just about to post that.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:30AM]

same here. When i first saw it, I was all excited thinking they gave us the ability to send email in the future at a specific time

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:07AM]

everyone seems to have missed this one too

http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:09AM]

accept for the wiki editors however...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes#2008

[Grey Acumen Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:06AM]

I would have liked to see a reversed version of this, so that it would let you create an email, and then pick a date and time in the future when it would get automatically sent without you having to be there.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:11AM]

The iPhone/iPod firmware you have DIRECTLY linked to is REAL!

It installs using iTunes but wont activate unless your a developer. It will make the screen go purple and iTunes will say it is unable to activate the device!

You just LINKED THE REAL BETA FIRMWARE on your main news page Lol

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:01PM]

Seriously? Ha, that was my joke for the evening.

I won't even download it. But still, I wish someone would leak it...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 8:52AM]

I'm totally serious.

Have a look at any of the iphone forums such as hackint0sh or macrumors and you'll see it confirmed!

[hiren Posted Apr 2nd 2008 9:51AM]

That firmware is real.

[hastings Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:12AM]

iLounge had a good one as well, http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/a1/index.

Read some of those Apple ads at the top, quite funny.

[hastings Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:13AM]

PS - The magenta is a great touch!

Cheers

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:21AM]

HA!! *reading down the page*

"MacBook Air "not just a computer, it's God""

:D :D TOO funny!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:13AM]

Oh and my personal favorite...


Sprint Switches to Verizon Wireless
In a significant enterprise win, Sprint Nextel has switched wireless carriers from themselves to Verizon Wireless. Sprint President and CEO Daniel R. Hesse said, "Look, I know this looks bad, but our employees must be able to communicate on a reliable network to dig us out of this hole we're in."

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:11AM]

LMAO nice one!

[danielsloan Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:12AM]

the HD DVD+ site had some typos and poor grammar at times. Then I realized the site is normally in French.

[mac404 Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:28AM]

I still laughed hardest at ThinkGeek's Betamax to HD-DVD converter. Oh so useful.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:14AM]

Where's Engadget's? Come on, you guys must have something up your sleeve?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:34AM]

did you really miss it?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/painting-the-town-magenta/

It's more of a one-two kind of deal, but works for me :)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:34AM]

Well... There is a pink background...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:38AM]

Ryan swears thats all for reals though.

[Wolfticket Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:54AM]

The funny thing is, if the whole magenta thing is an April fools then T-Mobile probably will have a pretty decent reason to sue engadget.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:01AM]

My first thought was that tmobile was in on the gag. Ryan said that wasn't the case, so now I'm thinking maybe tmobile was the one pulling the gag. Perhaps having read the article here about them suing people over the use of magenta they decided to have a little fun. Wonder if they saw it going where it did.

[dickweed Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:17AM]

Damn I got Rick Roll'd by ThinkGeek!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:19AM]

Youtube Rick Roll'd the internet.

[xnifex Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:30AM]

youtube did what? and how?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:38AM]

Go to YouTube and click any featured video, quick!

It's kind of old but still amusing. And damnit, I actually find myself ENJOYING THE SONG now.

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around
and desert you!

I can't believe I added it to my favorites. Oh lord.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:53AM]

HA! That is pretty good actually. Everything else has been more parody than prank.

(I'm still hoping to learn that some part, if not all, of this T-Mo biz going on here was prank. If it was there's 300+ commenters here and 4000 digg users with egg on their face)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:20AM]

I wanted the Vintage360 too!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:23AM]

********First link has changed to http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080401.html

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:25AM]

I think my favorite of all time has to be the "Sheng Long" joke from EGM. HE'S REAL!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:27AM]

Don't leave out the biggest news of the day:

World of Warcraft is comming to consoles!

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:33AM]

Those screenshots are hilarious!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:47AM]

Anyone check out Gizmodo? They had Mr. T in every freakin' post today.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:49AM]

And saw a post about running Windows Server 2008 on PlayStation3 (Cell processor edition)...>

http://www.grumpywookie.com/2008/04/01/windows-server-2008-on-playstation3/

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:05AM]

Windows isn't halfway portable enough for that.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/ports/daily/20080401/
...note that on these images, wifi may not work right yet, but we're working on it.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:16AM]

Holy shit, Ethana, really? You're even turning this one into a Linux discussion? You really are the worst, you know that?

[sinai Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:49AM]

how about the pirate bay shutting down and moving their servers to my living room?

[sinai Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:49AM]

no one cares about gizmodo. know why? CLICK THE LINK TO FIND OUT!



ugh.

[sinai Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:50AM]

crap, that was @ AJ

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:53AM]

http://www.boilr.net/2008/04/01/apple-stuns-the-world-with-new-iphone/

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:50AM]

Here is another one from thinkgeek:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html?cpg=70H

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:53AM]

All fake except for the iPhone BETA, THAT ONE IS REAL.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:56AM]

Who reads XKCD? All of dayfree press had a good one. Although I think it's all normal now.

[monkeyontherun4 Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:21AM]

yea i read xkcd and it got switched with some dinosaur comic... i got all confused until i looked at a few more comics and realized they all switched. i thought my bookmarks got all messed up. lol

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:02AM]

I want a darn handsolo!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:20AM]

There was also Woot.com's all day one item woot off, complete with Lost type theories and forum fun(script Kiddie early in the night was extra).

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 10:47AM]

To their credit, they quieted many forum trolls by offering four chances at a Bag of Crap.

Followed by more batteries...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 7:37PM]

Oh yeah, That's totally true. There was just some nonsense in the forums. The April Fool's thing was cool, I thought.

[Albert Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:11AM]

The Virgil thing isn't real?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:10AM]

Nice one on putting the real iPhone 2.0 beta firmware torrent link on your site as an April Fools Joke.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:57AM]

Tauren Marines in StarCraft 2 just don't seem to hit it.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:22AM]

Eclipse.org announced release 4 of it's java development environment (while we were waiting for 3.4)

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/e4.html

And theserverside.com announce, because java is going to become defunct! they are going multi-language

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48904

[DBG Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:36AM]

When the internet cries, it cries from it's penis (Family Guy reference... look up "Chick Cancer" to watch it if you haven't seen it already =).

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 3:07AM]

I hope everyone caught The Legend of Zelda movie trailer?
http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/863/863492p1.html

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 11:16AM]

That was the best.
look like some over glorified fan made trailer.
lmffo

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 3:50AM]

i saw a Rock Band for PSP prank in Gamespot.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 6:31AM]

lol!

BUT this has to be the funniest April fools joke I have seen. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU - the bit at 2:14 is the funniest! :D

[AwayBBL Posted Apr 2nd 2008 7:04AM]

Apple has no April Fools Funny Bone...

I had posted a web app onto their web apps site, and they accepted it... but quickly pulled it down later in the day.

here it is in google's cache...

http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:BzB_zo0borMJ:www.apple.com/webapps/entertainment/thebestwebapplicationinthewholeworld.html+%22the+best+web+application+in+the+whole+world%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

if you have an iPhone (or not)... you can still view the app at... http://www.myhip.com/best_app.html

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 8:01AM]

Slim pickings, this year, eh? Ain't this the holiest day of the year for our Discordian friends? Where were they?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 9:08AM]

Also the new 4-neck controller for Guitar Hero 4, as reported by OXM:
http://www.oxmonline.com/article/xbox-soapbox/guitar-hero-4-controller-unveiled

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 10:42AM]

While not tech-related, Butterfinger's rebranding to The Finger was amusing.

I walked into 7-11 yesterday morning and there was a box of free, rebranded candy bars on the counter. So in essence, Nestle gave consumers The Finger.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:46PM]

how about the legend of zelda trailer

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 12:55PM]

The Rock Band DLC of "Still Alive" made me joy inside. That's right - I joyed. Hard.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 2:33PM]

My wife asked me how the Gmail Custom Time feature worked.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 9:18PM]

Xfire.com turned 1337 yesterday too...

It's not visible anymore, but here is a screenshot...
http://www.smoobox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4012

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2008 10:18PM]

how bout the dev teams... (still dont know if that was a prank of not) any one know

[(Unverified) Posted May 3rd 2008 10:15PM]

I'm surprised you guys missed out on this one:
http://blog.chinavasion.com/index.php/550/bluetooth-tooth-lands-april-fools-hook-link-and-sinker-part-1/

The bluetooth tooth LOL

And how many mouth/teeth references could a writer get into a piece?