One of my favorite stories ever is the 1998 Burger King Aprils Fool's commercial about the new "Left-handed Whopper".
Long story short the company had to release a follow-up statement sayin that it was a joke after all the people who showed up at their restaurants asking for one but that's not what I love about the story. The best part is the fact that there were also people who went to ask for the right-handed version.
Dumb entitlement at its finest.
The IETF (@ietf) has made a remarkable amount of great April Fools satire of their own technical documents. They're definitely worth the read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments. #ietf #aprilfools #humor #humour #satire #programmerhumor #programminghumor #internet #ascii #asciiart #parody #rfc #wikipedia #internethistory
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RFC 2549 IP over Avian Carriers with QoS 1 April 1999
Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) MAY be implemented using scales, as
shown:
ASCII art of a scale. On the left is a box in two segments, both containing the text "10g." On the right is a crudely drawn ASCII art of a bird facing right. There are two consecutive periods beneath the bird on the scale, representing something that is eluded to with the text beneath:
Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries, as shown on the
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RE: https://mas.to/@Brian_Mahoney/116024407792008356
Aha! That's what that #Wordle repeat was about! I did not connect those dots. #GroundHogDay
Should we expect some shenanigans for #AprilFools?
Sound Effect Surprise-Hide a small speaker and play unexpected sound effects during quiet moments.
New Classroom Rule-Write a silly rule on the board and act serious until students realize it’s a joke.
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#aprilfools'day #wolink #hilariousjokestoday
https://www.hilariousjokestoday.com/archives/4752
@NanoRaptor I seriously want this to be a real thing for @lazygamereviews / #LGR to make an #Oddware video about.
#AprilFools in December 🤣 They fooled YOU, fools!
"All those who feared a #dystopianfuture got it wrong"
"A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the #media. Fortunately, these bleak visions never came to pass.." #dystopia
Don't worry, be happy. All tho...
🍝 The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html
#Gboard Japanese team’s April (ROT6) Fools project of this year, Gboard Dial Version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdWyD0cBx4
(Sadly there doesn’t seem to be a landing page this year.)
#Google #AprilFools
RE: https://s.1a23.studio/notes/9yuhmrk4o6xcyt7r
Today I (re-)learned about the “418 I’m a Teapot” [1] error code, which was first codified in the April’s fools issue of Internet request for comments for 1998. RFC2324 [2] describes the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0), and has 418 as that particular error code.
I think it might be useful, as part of the combined measures against unauthorized AI scraping, to start returning that HTTP 418 I’m a teapot error… or even mess with them with different ludicrous non-coffee things to be, such as a mate bowl, or I’m a spaceship…
After all, that’s what Internet of Things shitposting should be about, right?
/ht @osma
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418
[2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324
#TIL #TodayILearned #RFCs #AprilFools #AprilFoolsRFCs #HyperTextCoffeePotControlProtocol #HTCPCP
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #466: Alaska Airlines vs Fish.
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#alaskaairlines #aviation #planes #strangebuttrue #flyingfish #animals #aprilfools #wtf #webcomic #comics #funfacts #facts #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
@samhenrigold @valk
It's actually for april-fools updates. Well, that's what I shall be using it for if any of my first-degree relatives leave their devices unattended around me...
منذ 2010 وحتى 2025، Minecraft تحتفل بأبريل بنكات وفكاهة:
4D لم ينشر، متجر وهمي، Minecraft 2.0 المزيفة، سكان طويلو الأنف، تحديث الحب والعناق، Trendy Update، جهاز لعبة وهمي، رسوميات 8-bit، Minecraft 3D، Snapshot 20w14∞، Minecraft Plus!، OneBlockAtATime، النار على اللانشر، Poisonous Potato، CraftMine Update.
#Minecraft #AprilFools #Gaming #MinecraftCommunity
Today’s Friday Frivolity provides a perhaps useful hypo on joke offers: the case of the man who fell for an April Fools prank and got the letters KRUD tattooed on his forehead.
It appears this is an "April Fools" joke.
It is not clearly labeled as a joke and the satire would certainly not be clear to those unfamiliar with Linux.
❓"Mark this date as I reveal the most shocking development since Linus Torvalds smiled at a conference."
⁉️"The transition to OnePackage is scheduled to begin next month, with complete adoption expected by the end of 2055—or 'whenever we get around to it,' according to the official roadmap document."
❗" One Package Roundup" links to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
😂 Love a good prank? These April Fool Riddles will keep you guessing with clever twists! 😜 Solve them: https://riddlesquest.com/april-fool-riddles/ #AprilFools #Riddles #Trickster
Daily old piece 10 (part I)!
Silly thing I drew once for April Fools Day.
From 2021.
My very first 3 minute YouTube short is finally up on my channel! I decided to play a quick little game of CraftMine from the Minecraft April Fools update. I promise, this adventure might be short but it goes way off the rails just the same as the others~ :menhera_admire:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hek6Ev8SQuo
#youtube #shorts #minecraft #craftmine #aprilfools #2025
