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On the Internet

Website name, theme, or design changes

• Geek/Talk changed its name and logo to Gtalk after claiming to have been acquired by Google. New moderators from 'Google' were introduced to help sell the gag.
• Neopets.com made up "NeoCharge" where users are charged Neopoints to load/refresh pages, chat or go to another page.
• www.samurize.com incorporated a pink theme for their site, and changed the name from Samurize to '1337 Powerpuff Girls Meter Tool'.
• www.Airliners.net incorporated a pink theme for their front page. They had a message on the front page saying "With over 98% male users, Airliners.net needs to take major action to attract more female visitors. As a first step, we're changing the colors of the site to shades of pink. The whole site will soon be totally pink. Enjoy!"
• fuckedgoogle.com the author of this notorious anti-google site claimed to have fallen in love with a google employee. the site was totally redesigned to show his love for google and his re-thinking of the whole "google is evil" thing.
• Hedgehog World changed its theme to include ferrets instead of hedgehogs. It changed back around 11:00 p.m. EST.
• Unicyclist Fourms changed to a pink theme. It changed back around 9:00EST.
• Slashdot incorporated a pink "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" theme [1] at 00:00 UTC. This girlish theme is in stark contrast for a techie website believed to be mostly frequented by male nerds. A "Special Birthday Report" [2] about Jeff "Hemos" Bates emerged in the first minutes of the day. A link to Thinkgeek's wireless extension cords has also been posted.
• Linkfilter changes its default theme to resemble that of MetaFilter [3].
• textfiles.com ^[4] changes its default theme to resemble that of Google, announcing that they have merged to form "Toogle". ^[5]
• Compsci Compsci v3 was released, Hello Kitty theme!
• Jude2.com Christian Forums changed the logo and color theme to bright, multi, obnoxious colors.
• DSmeet.com changed its name and design to Turtle Land, confusing many of its members.
• Broadsheet, a Salon.com blog which centers on Women's issues, changed today to Bradsheet, changing the theme from pink to blue, and centering the articles around Brad Pitt.
• Webstock, serves its pages without images, CSS or javascript as an environmentally conscious guesture.
• http://www.forgetfoo.com foo put up a new page that simply said "Its been fun", redirecting every page on his site to this one, implying that he had shut his site down for good.
• Fruitcake MIDI was allegedly hacked by the owner's "morbidly depressed cousin", becoming the emo-inspired Gothcake MIDI.
• Boylove web forum BoyChat changed its site banner to read "MaoChat: Discussion Board of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China."
• DDR Online Brasil, a Brazilian Dance Dance Revolution fansite and community, changed every reference to DDR or Pump It Up! on the website (including the website's title and logos) to mention Samba Festival, a now-defunct DDR clone which, due to its bad timing, bad song selection and poor interface, was often criticized by the visitors on the site's forum. The April fools version is now available here (in Brazilian Portuguese).
• Zophar's Domain, an emulation portal, changed to a google-like theme and announced that they had merged with google to form "Goophar's Domain"
• JamBase, a live music search engine, changed to a Google like theme: [6]
• Sonic Classic changed its entire website to a page owned by a person under the nickname "ih8bush," which was deliberately done very badly.
• 4q.cc changed the layout of the site to use the complete opposite colors of the normal layout.
• Stick Figure Death Theatre changed the homepage to feature a dance club. However, any link on the page redirected the visitor to the original site.

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Unexpected website behavior pranks

• DevImg comments are filtered into an AOL-speak format.
• Psypoke celebrated "Seizure Awareness Day". The background consisted of flashing colors. This was a reference to the Electric Soldier Porygon controversy.
• Cartoon Network's Adult Swim message board administrators changed the language filter from normal "**bleep**" to funny sayings like '**GOLD TEETH**. However, they took it down within a couple hours. They renamed several members to 'Canada' and various other countries and cities. On the block they aired Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos instead of the scheduled Inuyasha.
• All content on the Ordo Templi Orientis U.S. Grand Lodge site was modified to follow Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth's spelling conventions ("ov" rather than "of", for example).
• Ephemeral has rankled the X-Files fanfic community, replacing their favorite characters in posted fanfic with burrowing animals.
• OS News gave every member who logged in an upgrade to subscriber edition for free, saying that a "haxx0r" had hacked into the OS News servers.
• Broadbandreports forums switched many members' avatars around.
• noon Sports Forum made an announcement that the forum was under new management by a member named "Mr. L33T!!!" (who was really an Admin with a different display name) who only talked in leetspeak. In addition, some of the sections had their names and descriptions translated into leetspeak.
• 2ch.net, the largest public message board in Japan, marked all posts made on April 1st, 2006 with the date March 32nd, 2006. Japanese Wikipedia page here.
• endignorance.com, an underground Guam-based community calls it quits .
• Albino Blacksheep's front page linked to a Flash video supposedly representative of "one of the best animations in the Flash industry," which was instead a crudely animated, nonsensical video of stick figures and defecation.
• Sitcoms Online changed the user rank of all of its forum members plus its moderators and administrators to "Banned", and changed the rank of its banned users to "Administrator"
• TDZK's ship classes were changed to various types of fish, and several weapons were renamed to those of fishing tools, such as fileting knives, spears, and nets.
• The main website of KO-Chan.org was changed to look like it was undergoing Japanese translation and looked as if it were being bought out by 2ch, followed by a front page that displayed a message from Interpol, stating that the website had been shut down due to the promotion of illegal immigration in Europe.
• New Zealand Humor based forum loob.co.nz translated their entire site into Spanish. screenshot
• Golem-Templates, Template web page switches their layout to display terrible web designs and stock photos no one would want.
• East Coast Scanning Resources administrator, embj, planned a fake website hacking. The logo was changed to depict the character, Plankton, from the television series SpongeBob SquarePants, the "Hosted by:" logo was changed from "ServerFAQs" to "server FAGS", the forum name was changed to "JOES PUBLIC ENTERTAIMENT network", and the so called "hacker" registered and made a post from the IP address of 0.0.0.0. Also, the forum permissions were changed to only display forums to the administrators; however, the other administrator, Joseph11, had his password changed so he could not access his account. The staff had no knowledge of this prank.
• Mobius-X A Sonic The Hedgehog and Megaman fan-site, faked a hacker attack, in which the forum skin was changed and a Chuck Norris banner was added. The kicker though was the editing of the word filters to replace every vowel and other letters with "CHUCK NORRIS", so messages appeared like so: thCHUCK NORRISs CHUCK NORRISs stCHUCK NORRISpCHUCK NORRISd.
• Jonny's Place A Sonic the Hedgehog fansite, was changed to a supposed archive of hentai, but each image was actually a popular 4chan meme known as "Cock Mongler." The forums also saw changes; word filters caused words such as "Sonic" and "Mario" to become switched, and the only available emoticon was a photoshopped image of the face of one of the administrators.
• Malespank A male/male spanking story archive changed the male pronouns in all 8300 stories into female.
• MetalMachineMusic A Zoids RPG website replaced their homepage with a notice supposedly from Block9 saying that Hasbro had complained to them about the content of the site and it was going to be taken down in 48 hours. Also, some members of the forums had their Avatars changed to one of something similar to a running Llama, in different attire.
• Dogasu's Backpack A Pokemon web site that compares American and Japanese version of "Pocket Monster" with 4Kids's edited version did a fake version of 4Kids only edit for "Mean With Evy" that replaced Glalie for a trainer's Jynx.
• MuggleNet.com, a Harry Potter fansite, changed their layout outrageously.
• The Mario fansite Lemmy's Land claimed that due to the webmaster's hurt wrist, he had to take some "high-maintainance" sections down. Its message board changed to "THE PPL'Z LAND", which had liberal use of a certain smiley and had a logo that was deliberately done badly.

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Fake news and announcements

• MAFIAA The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have merged to form the Music And Film Industry Association of America, Inc.
• ConsoleCity.com announced that a merger had taken place between Sega parent company Sammy and Capcom, forming a new company called Segacom, which was to launch a new console in 2008.
• Weblognews.nl announced to pay Bloggers for their posts if they placed an iframe-banner on their site. Many signed up, only to see the banner on their own site change to "Wooot! you're pwned by Ochblog!" on April first.
• SaysDave reported on the new defense teleportation system.
• ctrl-click, a technology news site, announced that a takeover by Macrumors.com has been completed.
• The Thudgame Discworld Boardgame site announced that they had been acquired by Google and released a Google-ised beta version of the new Thud client to celebrate the "event"!
• Capitalex.com announced that PayPal has acquired e-gold!
• Google Community announced that they were acquired by Yahoo!
• HaikuNews has a story of two developers working on a haiku port to a palm handheld and a cellphone. This article also claims that haiku is forking to use the linux kernel.
• Yahoo! has an "SM News" breaking story about a new "No Talking" law on New York City Subways - Yahoo.com (Note: is a Sierra Mist ad that does not redirect, but plays a video in page)
• A leaked Google press release announces that AdSense publishers can now click their own ads as long as they don't use automated means to do it.
• AOL UK announces a new reality show, where celebrities will operate on members of the public. This entertainment news item seems to be in AOL members-only pages. The link for members of the public to apply to be operated on goes to April Fools hoax on Google.
• Ars Technica reviews a new game, Duke Nukem Forever (Warning: Contains potentially offensive content). (See Duke Nukem Forever)
• Blizzard Entertainment announced that the new Alliance race for their upcoming World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade will be Wisps. They possess the radical ability to detonate themselves in order to strengthen their fellow players or weaken enemies. Due to the fact that the player would be permanently dead after doing this, many players claim that this is not a joke, considering the news was released on March 31 - the day before April Fool's Day. However, when the information was released, it was April 1st in China and Japan, with China having a very large World Of Warcraft presence.
• Blizzard Entertainment announced the 1.11 Patch Notes. Just days after 1.10 was released!
• Bungie Studios announced more information about their annual April Fool's joke, Pimps At Sea http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=BngeWklyUpdteMar31&p=6540570
• CityHippy reported that President Bush was planning to drill for Oil under Yellowstone National Park.
• A1 Grand Prix announces the calander for the 2006/7 season, including many new motor racing venues.
• Inside Sarbanes Oxley announces that, given the pending retirement of Senator Paul Sarbanes, they will now refer to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as "Oxley-Ox."
• Wikitravel features the island of "San Serriffe" as their destination of the month.
• Knobtweakers (the largest electronic music mp3 blog) Announced that it's changing its format to country music.
• DCEmus PSP News, announce the release of the worlds first Nintendo DS Emulator for the PSP Console.
• Chicago-based furniture retailer Walter E. Smithe announced on their website (at http://www.smithe.com/field.htm) that they had signed an agreement with the Chicago Cubs to construct a dome over Wrigley Field, and to rename the park Walter E. Smithe Field.
• The Faith and Linux-oriented ChristianSource mailing list's moderator announces that Google has purchased the list as part of its plans to start Google Christian, the index of "as much of God as He will allow."
• CNET posted video reviews of the fake E-vri-thin gadget, a 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham, and a 1988 Ford Crown Victoria Country Squire LX.
• Webmaster Hot Spot announced that their site had been sold to a new owner, who was going to merge it with his own large webmaster forums. The original admin accounts were marked as banned, and the site logo was changed to a handwritten "Aurex", apparently the name of the new owner. A day later, the announcement was removed, and the admins pretended that nothing had ever happened.
• ConservativeDebate posted a fake article concerning a make-believe trip that Sandra Day O'Connor made to the UN. The word censor was also changed so every use of the article 'a' was replaced with the message "April fools".
• DivX Head Up Display (XHUD), an in-car head up display for projecting DivX video on your front windshield.
• Desicritics.org announces that Sonia Gandhi is returning to Italy, George Clooney is running for President in 2008, and Saurav Ganguly is retiring from Cricket
• Edmunds.com announced Lotus' decision to build a pick-up truck named F1.50 with an 11 pound payload and 22 pound hauling load.
• Electric Minds announced its acquisition by Slashdot to create "SlashMinds."
• Eskimo Bob announced a name change to "Chauncey of the North" to avoid confusion with Bob the Builder. [7]
• The MMORPG, Eternal Lands announced that it had been bought out by the FSF for $250000 and 4000 shares, so all Windows builds would be removed, rare items would be redistributed, and everything would be released under the GPL v3. Unfortunately, many players were fooled by the extremely obvious fake. See [8].
• FictionAlley.Org announced a merger with Google, Microsoft, AOL, Coca Cola, The Walt Disney Company, American Airlines, Wal Mart, Lush, Yahoo!, Nike, and Daniel Radcliffe, to better supply the consumerist needs of all people everywhere.
• zeldalounge announces it was taken over by wucha
• GameSpot, reports on Blizzard Entertainment's upcoming MMO World of Starcraft and the Top 10 Final Fantasy Games of all time. They also had news stories on Cowbell Hero and a new ESRB ASS rating.
• Games Workshop reports they acquired the rights to De Bellis Antiquitatis rule set and previews their new roman-line ape models.
• Google Operating System Blog introduces Google Browser, a fast, versatile and secure text browser for the Internet. Google Browser is free, already out of beta, and the installer has only 1.68 MB. (In fact, the browser is based on Lynx.)
• Hak.5, an IPTV show, announces that they have been bought out by G4, and that the show is shifting to a video-game focus.
• ibiblio, one of the oldest WWW sites and a large information collection, has proposed, the radical and innovative BLiNG tag to the W3C.
• Invisionize, an Invision Power Board resource website, announced it was introducing a new strict one-strike policy, inciting protest from several members.
• QuakeNet, the worlds largest IRC network, reports that all users of the popular NNScript for mIRC will be G-lined from its network due to a patent violation. [9]
• DS Fanboy, a blog focusing on the Nintendo DS from Joystiq, posts that Nintendo has announced that the upcoming DS game, New Super Mario Bros., will only run on the Nintendo DS Lite.
• Moodle announced that they would be converting the code for their entire Open Source Learning Management System from PHP to .NET code before April 1, 2007.
• Multi Theft Auto reported on its website that you could enter their Quality Assurance beta-testing team if you tuned in to an internet radio station, only playing the Banana Phone song for almost 12 hours long, to pick up two secret words broadcasted.
• Mess.be's administrator, Dwergs, announces that his site will now shift focus from Microsoft's MSN Messenger to Google's IM Client, Google Talk.
• NSMB.com announced that BikerFox joined Team nsmb.com.
• CONNECTING THE DOTS a technology blogger gives up nearly a year and a half of effort to become 'Connecting the Stitches', one man's journey into knitting.
• Newgrounds.com announced that they have acquired I-Mockery.com. The actual I-Mockery homepage was styled to look Newgrounds-branded and was renamed I-Grounds.
• Paper Programs, a small open source development group was bought up by Microsoft
• Pkmn.Net reported that the elusive Celebi could be caught in Pokémon Emerald. In addition, anyone typing 'Pokémon' in the forums would have it come out as 'Digimon', among many other things.
• Sirius Backstage announces that Sirius Satellite Radio will begin having up to 6 minutes of commercial on 5 different music stations.
• Astronomy Picture of the day sing the new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been able to confirm that the Moon is made of green cheese. The telling clue was the resolution of a marked date after which the Moon may go bad.
• Channel 9 Mike Hall - Network Enabled Refrigeration Device (and pranks at Microsoft)
• Celebrity Death Toll reports that Christopher Walken is dead.
• TVEps is reporting that Isaac 'Chef' Hayes not leaving southpark after all. He comes clean that it was a publicity stunt.
• Macintosh news website TidBITS announces that editor Joe Kissell is leaving to "spend more time with his family."
• 22Pixels reports on a new Adobe Photoshop CS2.5, the download leads to the old Random Burper.
• 4chan claims that their editor called moot has been eaten by a shark
• p0rk.com decides to stay open.
• Chitika declares invalid clicks valid
• Gorillaz-Unofficial, a Livejournal-based fansite dedicated to animated supergroup Gorillaz, posts a fictitious newspaper article claiming 2-D's ex-girlfriend and Gorillaz ex-guitarist Paula will be rejoining the band on their upcoming world tour and releasing a solo album including the single "Baby To Me You're Nothing But A Dick And A Wallet (So Why Don't You Love Me No More?)." The article is supposedly taken from Musicmatch Magazine, which does not actually exist, and site moderator 2-J later confessed that a "talented graphics artist" was responsible for the prank.
• DS-Play.com site admin, RoCkeee, pranked the site into thinking Bungie would be releasing a Halo DS, by showing off a fake e-mail from the Bungie Community Support.
• Cosplay.com Front page had an image of a lumberjack stating that the site had been "Lumberjaxxed." Upon clicking the image, you were taken to the forums which had a picture of Paul Bunyan and his blue Ox. Many of the forum titles were changed and words were automatically replaced, such as "anime" to "japanimation."
• MacGenealogy.org announces Apple entering the genealogy business and releasing "iRoots" and "iRoots Pro" genealogy applications in early 2007.
• ntl:hell claims to be now owned and operated by BT.
• VideoLAN reports they dropped support for G4 and G5 series to only support Intel.
• HAHMED.COM - Announced that his website/domain would be sold on ebay, and his widely-read blog would now come to an end
• www.mtgsalvation.com - In wake of the lawsuit against one of its members for 'leaking' information before the release of a set, the staff of the respective forum announced that Hasbro was ready to take legal action against the site unless they got rid of all references to the card game Magic: The Gathering. They went as far as purchasing a new url (www.cardgamesalvation.com), creating a new logo for the site, changing members names so that they did not reference any cards from the game, and censoring the word 'Magic'.
• MagicTheGathering.com provided viewers with "live coverage" of a "Global Prix", a fake event that anyone in the world who played on April 1 was automatically entered in. Updates throughout the day gave "standings" which had the names of many professional players, generally from one continent only. Also, profiles with "famous" players were released, among them BYE, who had appeared at every event in history and had never won a match before shocking the world by going 5-3 in the Global Prix. (This was a parody on the Magic Swiss-style tournament seedings, where players not matched up would get a bye and an automatic win; this is represented in records as the match "Player vs. BYE".)
• Nwizard.com, a Nintendo-centric videogame news site, has reported that the recently indefinitely delayed Starcraft: Ghost has been announced for the Nintendo Revolution. In addition, various modules around the site have been "April Fooled".
• Locus Online ran a fake news item stating that Lucasfilm had licensed a new line of "Adult" Star Wars novels, including Brokeback Mountain by E. Annie Proulx "which explores the forbidden love between Han Solo and Chewbacca".
• Colgate-Palmolive announces it shall be merging with NYLUG in an effort to create open source cleaning products.
• Macrumors.com created a page of fake Apple rumors, including iTunes changing to WMA, and Apple and Disney acquiring each other in a complicated takeover.
• Anything4Free.com posted a news blog featuring OfferCentric, LLC which mocked FreePay's new 90-Day Policy.
• Amazon.com CTO announces that Amazon will make all employee IM addresses available for better customer service.
• Conservative journal Enter Stage Right announced on its blog that its conservative founder had converted to liberalism and would use the site to only promote "social justice"
• Sonic Cult faked various Sonic X-treme related information and images, claiming it to be from a lost beta which was up for download, but did not work on any emulators.
• Turdhead.com introduced its newest online game, "Staring Contest" (a followup to last month's "Guess Which hand").
• The Noblecast commentator Noble Brown announced that he was giving his life to Christ and turning himself in for all his horrid, unspeakable deeds.
• AOL SVP AOL SVP Sree Kotay announces new B3 browser release by AOL.
• MyGamerCard.net and Achieve360Points.com, two popular Xbox 360-related websites, announced the availability of a Barbie game for the new console. In addition, the GamerScore Leaderboard for the game was led by the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft, J Allard.
• Finnix announced the release of version 87.0 of its LiveCD. For the most part, the release was real, but also announced was a port of Finnix to the iPod, which was fake.
• Rizon IRC Network's Nessun put out the following global message: "Rizon has been contacted by the MPAA and given a legal document stating we must give out every users ip. For more information on this or to find out how to keep ur ip from being handed out please see #help Thanks." The topic on #help was "READ ME IF YOU MISS THIS YOUR AN IDIOT APRIL FOOLS"
• Department of Homeland Security is tracking people just by inputing a cell phone number is World Wind.
• Woot, Inc. set their "I Want One!" button to follow the visitor's mouse cursor so the only option was to buy a drain opener nominated as one of the 'worst woots ever'. [10]
• Bulbagarden, Pokémon Palace and #pocketmonsters put out a special edition of their "Bulbacast" Pokémon podcasts, announcing a raft of recently uncovered features and names for the Diamond/Pearl Pokémon games scheduled for release in Japan later this year, apparently from an exclusive behind doors interview at the GDC. In addition, they presented news stories from the Japanese Pokémon site PokéAni, including an announcement of a spin-off Pokémon anime, based on the Pokémon - Fushigi no Dungeon series of games.
• The Seattle Podcasting Network is reporting on the iPood, an iPod add-on that helps toddlers speed up the toilet training process.
• Operation Sports posted a fake news story about the release of ESPN NFL 2k7, after there was a loophole found in the EA exclusivity agreement with the NFL and the NFLPA. The article even featured a Photoshopped cover that was created by the site's owner, Steve Noah.
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog has entire blogging staff quitting because commenters are mean.
• Hackaday goes autonomous, claiming markov chains will instead be writing their posts.
• Download Squad goes automated, using Racter to write its posts.
• The personal blog of Kees Cook announced he had discovered a flaw in NetFlix allowing anyone to download movies free of charge.

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Yahoo! Web 2.0 buyout related

• Yahoo! buys all the Web 2.0 companies in existence.
  • Goobix.com has announced that it was acquired by Yahoo! as a Web 2.0 company, following their evil plan of dominating the "Web 2.0" Internet. [11]
  • Juxel.com (NSFW) also announced it was acquired by Yahoo!, and changed their logo to match. [12]
• SitePoint published an article giving advice on how to build your own successful Web 2.0 application. The article satirizes the recent eBook, Getting Real published by the poster-child of Web 2.0 businesses, 37signals, and among its suggestions advises readers to "set it up and sell it off -- implementation is for losers!" They also announced they would be charging for posts to their General Chat forum, which angered a number of regular visitors.
• Ajaxian feature an article on Safety-Critical Ajax.
• Meetro announces their acquisition of Friendster for their 'web2.0' technology to help enable 'random hookups.'
• mabber invents an instant messaging HUD for car windshields.
• SQL On Rails version 4.1 is released. The new version promises to revolutionize web development. A screencast detailing how to build a search engine in 8 minutes accompanies the release.
• deviantART announces a sneak peak of their upcoming dAv5 Skin, in all its Web 2.0 glory. [http://news.deviantart.com/article/20566/ News article.
• hypocritical, oft the critic of the Web 2.0 crowd, gives up and redesigns in a glowing pink, gradient, diagonal hash, glassy, reflective way. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
• Online comic [General Protection Fault] went to a [retro] look, including the art style, for the day.
• Sonic Cult faked a Sonic X-treme beta, which was revealed today. The user drx created a fake beta and convinced people with several images and a video.
• [13] Compsci v3 was released, Hello Kitty theme!
• LukeW Interface Designs reported acquiring OK/Cancel, who announced the acquisition with a comic.
• www.SMOSH.com featured a pointless looping flash movie of a penguin and a turkey playing tennis on its front page, claiming it to be the best cartoon on the site.
• SearchIRC.com is purchased by Yahoo! to expand their Web 2.0 properties. (SearchIRC is not a Web 2.0 site, by any means)

The term Web 2. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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• Prometheus Unleashed, a political commentary website, altered its main page to appear as if it had been shut down by the Department of Homeland Security.
• Psipog, a website focusing on the study and techniques used in psionics, changed the main page to talk about whales and how cool they are.
• Fbill Radio Podcast claims that the FCC paid them a visit and is censoring them
• The Unofficial PS3 Forums fooled its members into thinking that the site was going to be sponsored by Microsoft.[14][15]
• DeviantART has a poll asking users' opinion on their merger with MySpace.com. One of the poll's options is "sloof lirpa" which is "april fools" spelled backwards.
• Conspiracy's website was replaced with Farbrausch's.
• Live.com's MSN Search Engine doesn't display results but pops a message saying "April Fools". It appears that things are now back to normal.
• Cojawfee Forums were turned into 'ANdy's Pokeymonz FOrmz' and in fitting likeness, the members made insane posts.
• Borland Delphi ported to Simpson's Party Pinball
• Muftonline website faked site is shutting down.
• Bwtorrent website faked site hack and ratio deletion.
• The Coverville podcast posts a new "Originalville" where Brian plays the original versions of such hits as "Stairway to Heaven" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
• Croatian Sith Clan - made people think Marilyn Monroe was there. First, they changed the site logo to look like Google, and then made a frontpage post, in which was saying that Marilyn Monroe was there and pretended they talked to her via ICQ; and gave the CSC author/leader some great tips, like changing the site name or address.
• Flying Purple Hippos Forums: Every post made was assigned to a random member
• iPod Linux Forums: Was changed to O RLY Forums with the O Rly owl as the logo and the board went offline for a while
• Google has added some visitors to Area 51 and a dog at the Whitehouse, in Google Earth. Also, they have started a dating service, Google Romance. In a more subtle trick, they also had their front page displaying their generic Google logo without any embellishments (normally, the logo changes from day to day highlighting some current event or season, especially during the olympics or on normal holidays). Although their GMail logo is well displaying the fact that today is its second birthday.
• The California Patriot, prominent conservative magazine, announced that it was acquired by The Socialist Worker and redesigned its blog in red with pictures of Stalin, Mao and Che Guevara.
• The Economist announced that GeneDupe is working on genetically engineering such mythical creatures as dragons, unicorns, and gryphons.
• Everquest 2 Characters are randomly being told things such as "You have been hit for 10,000 points of falling damage" and "You are overburdened." There is also an impossible scavenger hunt given out by a Gigglegibber which has a reward of a fabled ring with +100 to every stat and +1000 to health and power. Upon failing to complete the quest, players are mailed a gigantic ring house item.
• GlobalParse, a site based on hand-picked news articles added the "Snow Effect" javascript because they claimed it looked "pretty yet hypnotic, just like us".
• Homestar Runner turned their entire flash based cartoon website upside down for the day. [16]
• IceBB, a small PHP message board system, was renamed JarJar. [17]
• Ikonboard.com added a link to the AdminCP on its community forums which took users to http://forums.ikonboard.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=Admin
• Intellectual Icebergs.org podcast, usually very factual and down to earth, released an episode outing the shadow group, Evil Geniuses For a Better Tomorrow, and interviewing Dr. Laurah Meerclar about new studies that prove a psychic link between cats and...you guessed it...crazy old cat ladies.
• Invisionfree's support forum has placed up a pink skin.
• Jared Sorensen, independent tabletop RPG designer of Memento Mori Theatricks, set up a hoax that his name and IP had been stolen out from under him by legal trickery. RPG.net thread.
• Kingdom of Loathing index page redirects to a fake cybersquatting page - clicking any of the links returns to the game. Many of the "ultra-rare" adventures happen frequently, but fail to drop the ultra-rare item, with a fake MySQL error message. The Spectral Pickle Factory, a rare place to adventure that only appears around once a year, appears in the forest but cannot be entered. The real Spectral Pickle Factory can be accessed by clicking where it should be in the plains.
• Medialoper has an exclusive review of the Prism DuroSport 6000 and related accessories. A product of DuroSport Electronics, the Prism is said to be the worst mp3 player ever created.
• AeroXperience, a site devoted to Windows Vista technologies and development, was hit with a Cease and Desist letter from Microsoft for hosting sidebar patches which came from Anti-TGTsoft.
• Anti-TGTSoft, the site of Rafael Rivera (famous for patching uxtheme files and sidebars everywhere), was hit by a Microsoft C&D letter for reasons stated in the previous bullet.
• ModTheSims2, a popular Sims 2 fansite, renamed itself to ModYourLlama2.com, had multiple Llama related uploads and changed the theme.
• MSDN: Coding4Fun Day Special
• MUME [18], Multi-Users in Middle-earth, the Tolkien themed MUD shifted in a Star Wars parallel universe.
• Neopets pretended to add a Neopoint tax that charged you for each page you visited called 'NeoCharge'.
• NoHomers.net played a variety of pranks on its visitors, including changing the identity of people who made posts and reuploading the 2002 index page.
• eCritters pretended to merge with Neopets.
• RuneScape the MMORPG owned and ran by JaGeX added penguins in Lumbridge sheep bin disguised as a sheep.
• Steampowered.com has added 'Xen' to their list of countries on their servers page
• pinkbike.com changed their layout to appeal to the female mountain bikers, with headings including "mydiary," "ponies," and "fashion."
• OpenOffice.org's website has a news story about a takeover of the open-source office suite by Microsoft. The link to the full story goes to a hoax page. Look the Screenshot
• Orbox and possibly other games at GameGum is upside-down.
• GreenDay.org announced the break up of the band Green Day pointing to issues between Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool.
• EFnet announced that the controversial vote for clearing the network of warez was passed by a slim margin.
• Opera Software launches an online photo library called Opera Models, an alternative to the polished style of existing photo libraries. [19]
• Toon Zone Forums are pulling a variety of pranks including changed names of moderating staff, fake fan fictions, some "special" forum designs, and generally unreproved spamming.
• Slim Devices releases the K.R.O.N.O.S
• Tech|ZONE Downloads was hit by the PIUC (Proper Internet Usage Committee) and cannot offer any more downloads.
• Technorati's top searches include Microsoft Bob, Apple Newton, PointCast, HyperCard, and other outdated technologies.
• The Floating Isle of Sanopia announced that the 2 lead developers had both died in a horrible car accident involving a school bus full of young children. The HTML source code stated a URL where players could submit their username and get a free "April Fools" gift for finding their easter egg. Note: they replaced the gift page due to high traffic.
• Uncyclopedia, claims to have been bought by Apple Computer in a "corporate takeover". [20]
• Wayne Hussey from The Mission UK confirms he will rejoin The Sisters of Mercy as guitarist.
• Whirlpool, an Australian broadband news site, announced that Telstra will be rolling out its ADSL2+ service with useful bandwidth limited 2Mbit while "the remaining ADSL2+ bandwidth will be reserved for Telstra branded services such as Foxtel Digital via streaming set-top box, BigPond Movies, and an as-yet unnamed consumer VoIP product targeting consumers interested in a second phone line." [21]
• Wikipedia suffered repeated attempts to make the Wikipedia sandbox redirect to Fecal Matter and one attempt to make Fecal matter the new sandbox.
• YTMND has redone their website to resemble Ebaumsworld.com stating that the latter had purchased the former, and made a 10 second redirection to ebaumsworld forums. This is in reference to the infamous Ebaum's World incident.
• 2600 adopted a Google-like site layout. The "Google Search" button said "Government Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" said "I'm feeling scared."
• Dr McNinja, a webcomic, produced a comic in which it shows the artists stating that they'd stop making the comic, so as to avoid being killed by ninjas. It was photographed in such a way as to suggest they had in fact been killed by ninjas, who are seen propping up their "bodies" in various poses to be "puppeteered". This was released a few days before April 1st, claiming that there'd be some new news about their stopping the comic on Saturday, April 1st. On April 1st an April Fools message was placed in the news section of the site.
• GBATemp, a handheld ROM news site, announced the Japanese release of New Super Mario Bros.
• DJYSRV A blog mostly about the Opera browser. claims that dolphins are browsing the internet with Opera Mini
• Mythic Entertainment (the makers of Dark Age of Camelot) tips their hat to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Instead of getting a horse to ride when you wish to travel the realms, you are now placed on the shoulders of a large person, who runs to your destination, while clapping coconuts together. Additionally, if you go to fight an epic monster like a dragon, or the ruler of the underworld, you may be underwhelmed at their size. On the servers dedicated to roleplaying, many of the NPCs have a manner of speech that is quite unpopular with the residents.
• NearlyFreeSpeech.net sent a press release out by email to their customers claiming that they'd been bought out by Post Cereal.
• Rate Your Music changed its messageboards to cover only inane topics such as "Beatles vs. Rolling Stones," and changed all album cover images.
• Starcraft Revolution, which is a mod for Warcraft 3, introduces the hybrids race, represented by a creature that combines purity of essence and purity of form: Chuck Norris.
• Fetish Cycles is bought out by Quality Bike Products, introduce the "Snuff" frame. [22]
• Coming Round Springfield message board changes from The Simpsons to Star Wars, in the shape of Coming Round Coruscant.
• TeeVeePedia is a Wikipedia parody from TeeVee.org -- this is their 10th annual April Fool's Day site!
• Textfiles.com adopts a Google like layout, with a link explaining that they joined up with Google.
• Thatsjustnotright.com changed its forum back to the poo brown of its glory days, rid itself of the current mods, banned many contributors, and brought back some members who were previously banned, giving them mod powers
• THCNET appears to have been shut down by the MPA and german GVU. Oh no!
• the cosmotron Changed its contents to match that of cosmotron.
• Vast.com states: "Vast.com has launched a new category, Credit Card search Our "deep" crawler now recognizes and extracts credit card numbers accidentally posted all across the web, and enables you to shop with them. What's the business model, indeed!"
• Amakna Square, a fantsite for the Flash-based game Dofus, changed its name and banner to Astrub Zaap (an in-game location where free players often hawk their overpriced wares), and its motto to "Where noobs flutter and beg..."
• ActiveWin.com has posted 6 exclusive screenshots of an early Alpha version of Windows IE 8.0, codename "Teahupoo".
• Chrono Tron announced the launched of Windows Live Tunes, the latest iTunes Competitor.
• Crablaw.com reported that the Reverend Jerry Falwell converted to Unitarianism and embaced gay marriage.
• Airliners.net changed their colors saying, "With over 98% male users, Airliners.net needs to take major action to attract more female visitors."
• Animal Crossing Ahead announced that Nintendo and Microsoft were developing "Animal Crossing 360" for the Xbox 360, slated to be released later this year.
• AntiComics launches as an April Fools parody of webcomic critic sites such as Websnark and Fleen.
• Renchan.org claims that it has been suspended by INTERPOL for violating "CODE-348c - A website that promotes and aids the movement of illegal immigrants between European countries." The supposed link to the INTERPOL site in the page is the link to the actual Renchan site.
• Arolos Weyr and Dark Fort Weyr announce that they will be becoming commercial, charging players for such things as the ability to Hear Inanimate Objects and have black dragons.
• BattleRealms.us turned into a "Donkey Singing" as well as featuring a new color scheme that is far different from the default red and black that they use. (April 1st site can be seen here [23])
• Blizzard Entertainment has announced a new company-owned restaurant chain called BurgerCraft, in which you can order Yamato Burgers, Zealot Fries, and much more. You can also gain Hunger Points to reach the rank of Grand Gourmand and access the Secret Cow Level, the VIP lounge. While the press release is dated April 1, the annoucement on the main page is dated March 31.
• Accelerated Evolution Forums is having a "Completely organized thoughts" versus "Random thoughts" war. "Random thoughts" is a thread where members post their spur-of-the moment thoughts. "Completely Organized Thoughts" was made by one of the administrators (Guy Fawkes) as the April Fool's Joke.
• Branchez-Vous reporting that Quebec's Prime Minister is offering free iPods to the first 1000 people who ask for one on his website.
• Bullshido.net posts news story about the owner selling the site for "$560,381, 40,000 shares of Century Martial Arts, two Wing Chun dummies, and a lifetime subscription to Black Belt Magazine" and changes the site to reflect match the layout of its "new owner's" site.
• The solution to ChessGames.com's daily chess puzzle is an en passant.
• Club Skill changed their site's main logo to "IGN UK: Dominating the world, one country at a time", as well as placed "IGN controls your mind." four times in the copyright section. In addition to this, a competition for an all-expense paid trip to E3 in Los Angeles, as well as fake Japanese software and hardware charts were placed on the site.
• CollegeHumor.com pretends to be outsourced to India. The original is available from a link in the new page.
• Cubed 3 announced that Pikmin 3 is in development for the Nintendo Revolution.
• Davis Wiki announces release of new software, looks just like MySpace.
• Dell UMPC information is released.
• The Hungarian Demoscene Portal retrograded back to its 2001 layout. (The up-to-date site was still available.)
• DistroWatch releases review about new "Windows Hasta La Vista"
• DOMAI (NSFW) substitutes text descriptions for pix.
• Dotcomr has announced that they will be changing names back to their previous names and were at one time considering bologna sandwich.
• eBaum's World - Created multiple fake government regulation sites involving the "Internet Regulations and Legislation Bureau"; showed censored versions of several of their media to get the point across. [24]
• Esctoday.com, a website covering the Eurovision Song Contest, reports that from 2007, the competition will be open to 55 countries, with five simultaneous semi-finals being held across Europe to determine which countries qualify for the final competition. This story actually leaked out on March 31 2006, due to the need to release press releases on the day before publication.
• Fark.com Posts articles about curry, and claims Duke University is one of the "best places in the world". Redirects to fake page Access denied by site filter.
• FidoFinder.com Lost dog web site lists a $1,000,000 reward for Paris Hilton's lost dog.
• Firestream, a Christian Heavy Metal Community, announced that it was moving from heavy metal music to Southern Gospel.
• The FreeBSD project announces the release of FreeBSD version 2.2.9!
• Planet Gamecube renamed a a forum on their message boards after banned member RABicle.
• Motley Fool, an investment site is filing a class-action lawsuit against the US government.
• fxguide fxguide features the making of for a black on white super
• Gadgetizer.com publishes spy photos of the space shuttle Discovery with corporate logos.
• GameDrift.com states: "Miami attorney Jack Thompson has won the case involving a badly executed Walmart robbery against Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., the publisher of the Grand Theft Auto Series. Rockstar was not involved in the process."
• GameFAQs shows a "You can cheat, but you can't hide" main page. In addition, the poll on the real main page is intentionally nonsensical, including choices such as "Snakes on a Plane" and "O RLY? YA RLY!" (all have been fads of the GameFAQS boards). The Daily Grind forum was resurrected, the letter "e" is banned on the controversial LUE forum and three new secret boards have been created.
• Game Maker Games, an archive for games made with Game Maker, posted four reviews of clown games, all of which received unusually high scores.
• Game Maker Showcase, another archive for games made with Game Maker, changed its layout to look identical to Game Maker Games
• Gamer Joe posted an update featuring the main character in an alternate fanfic universe.
• GameStay, reports that Microsoft to solve backward compatibility and save game issues, releases the Xbox into Xbox 360 Connection Kit code-named Mea Culpa.
• getDigital This shop offers a perfect wardriver stand-alone tool with functions like cracking WEP-keys and starting a VoIP call over an unsecured WLAN.
• Givemebeats.com - The owner of the website, Mardix, told the producers on the website that he's filing a legal complaint against them, and that he's going to sell everybody's beat so he doesn't go to jail. This created a panic on the website. People wanted to remove their beats, but their account was locked, making them impossible to make any changes. But later on that day, a new version is released.
• God Mode, a webcomic about the staff of a game news website, turned its homepage into the fictional "God Mode Online" website within the comic and featured a Street Fighter 4 news hoax.
• GTA-SanAndreas.com released a fake forum staff board to the public, claiming the forum software had glitched after one of the administrators fiddled with some settings.
• Gutterzombie, Comic Arts forum announces it has gone pay.
• Homeworking.com the forum and advice site for homeworkers, has announced that a group of Asian Leicestershire Millionaires (Leicestershire Immigrant People's Association) are giving away the price of joining an MLM to encourage a minimum number of immigrants to be represented in this field - the new minimum to be known as the LIPA Floor, here.
• Homeworking.com the forum and advice site for homeworkers, has announced that email copies of posts made to the forum may be slow to arrive today, due to the internet being cleaned, here.
• How Stuff Works Has two articles, one on animated tattoos and one on hydro-ordnance.
• Homestar Runner Wiki reskinned to give the appearance of a retrograde from MediaWiki to WikkiTikkiTavi.
• ibiblio Petitions W3C for introduction of BLiNG tag to the XHTML standard; heralds the dawn of Web 2.1 by adding 'bling' to the Web
• iLounge adopts subscription model, and establishes hourly Q&A fee.
• IWOOT, a UK gadget site, offers for sale a tiny device that downloads your brain's memory to a 2GB USB Flash Drive.
• Londinivm.com, an online rpg game announces the removal of major game features, and the addition of features todo with the game, 'Cricket'.
• The Brotherhood of Britannia announced its reformat into a One Tree Hill fansite..
• MassWrestling.com Amateur wrestling website redirects users to pro wrestling website for hours, tells users the domain was sold to the WWE pro wrestling organization.
• Matt Cutts announces he leaves Google to work at Yahoo! (and Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny announces the reverse).
• Metamath, a site about logic and math, shows a real mathematical theorem, dubbed Poisson d'Avril's theorem, that is constructed to spell out "April Fool" in formal math symbols.
• Mobile Gazette announces plans by the British government to close down the country's GSM networks for re-use with a top secret citizen surveillance program.
• The Mod Archive, a popular source of computer music announced a shutdown after 10 years on the scene.
• Multiplay UK, A gaming community with the latest news "NASA Picks Top Five Games For Archive" claiming 5 games will be sent on a journey in to the unknown, hopefully reaching other life to let the aliens see what human life is like.
• Newsforge has announced that Linus Torvalds and the OSDL have formed the world's first Open Source Dress for Success University (OSDSU).
• OverClocked ReMix, a video game music remixing site, announced that it would be charging a monthly fee with a 10-day free trial for direct downloads and that its upload limit would be increased from 6MB to 15MB. A "megamix" of FF6's "Terra" theme was also posted. In addition, it was announced that certain forum features would also require an account.
• OCAU, a hardware enthusiast site, announced plans to remove popular forums and delete all forum accounts less than two years old, in an attempt to return to "the Good Old Days".
• Philmug the Philippines Macintosh User Group has become the Philippines Microsoft User Group due to Dvorak's "apple dumping OSX for windows" article
• PlanetHalfLife.com - Large Half-Life news site turns pink.
• Revolution Report, published an article claiming that the final name of Nintendo's new console had been released. [25]
• The Salvation Army in the UK unveils plans to supersede charity wristbands with charity beards in an 'innovative Wear Your Beard To Work Day', illustrated with some attractive bearded ladies!
• SectionZ claims in an email to subscribers that due to a lawsuit, the underground electronic music website will go offline forever. A link in the email forwards users to a YTMND page stating it was an April Fools Joke.
• Serebii.net's banner has been changed to a Super Princess Peach one.
• Supergamez, a Hungarian news portal states, that P2P networks will be legalized in Hungary.
• Sideshow Collectables announces 6 inch Final Battle Darth Maul figure.
• SitePoint published an article giving advice on how to build your own successful Web 2.0 application. The article satirizes the recent eBook, Getting Real published by the poster-child of Web 2.0 businesses, 37signals, and among its suggestions advises readers to "set it up and sell it off -- implementation is for losers!" They also announced they would be charging for posts to their General Chat forum, which angered a number of regular visitors.
• BMW UK BMW announces the new "slow cameras gizmo".
• Starslip Crisis, a sci-fi webcomic, has mirror-imaged its front page with all links still functional.
• StarWars.com made an announcement on its main page linking to an article explaining that characters from the Willow universe had been inserted into the official Star Wars canon.[26]
• Svencoop.com, a domain website for Half-Life based mod Sven Co-op, has been taken over by "Sven's Discount Co-operative," an online shopping store, which claims to offer discounted products from TVs and DVD players to toys, clothing and kitchenware.
• TermiSoc, the University of Plymouth's Networking Society has reported that, due to a large bursary, they are switching their 3 Linux servers over to Windows Server 2003.
• The Celeb Forum, a celebrity forum, announced that it was adding naked male celebrity boards to its forum - shocking many members. The forum, also pranked people into believing one its moderators was an intelligent grown-up, when he was, in fact, Rowlesy.
• TheGTAPlace.com fakes Grand Theft Auto: "Chicago" [27] announcement. Whois lookup in the domain reveals "APRIL.GTACHICAGO.COM" and "FOOLS.GTACHICAGO.COM".
• The Register announces that China is buying Google
• The Register also announces that the US Department of Justice and the office of the White House Counsel are preparing a draft document laying out the President's wartime authority to remain in office past 2008
• The Wotch, a Webcomic, announced 2 days earlier that they were starting a new subcomic based on the popular character Jason Grey. Fans of the comic got very excited. The day the first comic was posted, April 1, eager Wotchers found this.
• ticalc.org and Detached Solutions have changed their main pages to look like they were taken by domain name squatters.
• Tokyo Toshokan has been shut down by the United States Supreme Court (A white link, effectively blending in with the background, reveals the joke.).
• Tomorrow.SG, a popular Singapore blog bulletin, posted plans to charge readers SGD$5.55 per month based on a subscription, due to an "unexpected growth in both audience and traffic".
• Tron Sector announced a fake Tron sequel, Tron: No More Goofing Around.
• UbuntuStudio, a wiki for using Ubuntu for a digital music studio, redirects to FruityLoops.com, a Windows application.
• UbuntuForums, the Ubuntu official forums, have a new theme style with a new logo with 3 fishes ;). Look screenshot
• RaGEZONE admin has been arrested for releasing copyright MMORPG server files.
• Undeadly.org posts a link to (OpenBSD Founder) Theo de Raadt's livejournal where he complains about the lack of beer funds and eventually announces suspension of OpenBSD development because he needs to get a 9 to 5 job.
• Urban Dead, an online game, tells you that you got bitten by "A vampire" who "drained 1 pint of blood" since last turn, or heard "A Werewolf" howling. Clicking the link to either profile shows a page that displays the message "April Fools!"
• Vgmusic.com, created a new VIP group called the "Premium Users", which supposedly gain more benefits from subscribing.
• Woot, Inc. sold a $19.99 "MAG KleerDrain Instant Drain Opener", and the "I want one!" button was modified to follow the user's cursor, making it difficult to do anything on the site other than buying the product. Also Self-Declared as the '06 Worst Woot Candidate.
• WRANKmusic - instead of the normal music news site, points to a Fraggle Rock fan club web site last edited in 1999.
• Yahoo! buys all the Web 2.0 companies in existence.
• Y-hosting's Yaoi Gallery has been claimed by deviantART, and will now feature yuri and heterosexual art.
• Zombie Squad turned into "Happy Team" for April fool's day.
• Aspira Media releases the new W3C CSS specifications update. [28]
• FIFA World Cup time delay, hoax site http://www.vvorldcup.com setup by blogger at http://www.iminstant.com
• Metroid and TThomaso, moderators of the VX Flash Forums, announced the Deletion of the popular General Discussion forums citing spam as the reason for their closure.
• Rui Carmo, of The Tao of Mac fame, is ditching OS X for Linux.
• StarTrek.com claims to have an exclusive preview of a new version of the website, but the link goes to a cheaply made 90s webpage about Star Trek, flashing graphics and all. [29]
• The Amarok music player announces a 2.0 release with a fanciful list of features including tabbed playlists and an Amarok music store. [30]
• The Drupal CMS announced that the program is going to be rewritten in Ook!. [31]
• The Foobies.com and Fark.com main pages have been replaced with a fake administration page. Options include fark cliches such as appending duke sucks to stories. The main page of Foobies.com was later replaced with a fark style main page containing fake news.
• The British rugby union site Planet-Rugby.com ran a story claiming that the British and Irish Lions would include players from France and Italy, to take effect with the Lions' next scheduled tour to South Africa in 2009.
• The first 5 items in Volume 24: Issue 22 of the Risks Digest
• The online retailer ThinkGeek offered for sale various fake products such as a grow your own 1-up mushroom kit, a caffeine inhaler, wireless extension cords, an iZilla player, and a desktop tanning center. Their tagline: "Stuff for the Smart Masses" has the "M" crossed out to say, "Stuff for the Smart Asses". [32] ThinkGeek also put a banner announcing PlayStation 3 "now shipping" [33]. The banner says: "click to order" but nothing happens as it is a not linked banner. In the source code, under the banner, it says "What are you looking for? Go away. There is NO URL. Or is there? MUAHAHAHAHAHA". On the bottom, you can see "Stop reading this. Your life surely can't be so bad that you're reading this useless swill? Also when you click on the photo of the The Screened Sphorb it just shows "loading quicktime 360 view"
• Two prominent Git hackers announced they will begin working for BitMover Inc..
• Hungarian Unix Portal Tha main page was changed to: D3f4<3d by y3rt h4x0r gr0up! (yert is a reverse name of HUP editor: trey)
• Ishkur [34] "announced" he is no longer going to be running his website, and sold it off for $58,000. Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't it be Good?" plays as a goodbye song.
• Microsoft enthusiast Robert Scoble announced that he's leaving Microsoft to work for Google[35].
• TYPE-MOON,a Japanese visual-novel game company announces a new yaoi game here, plus a brand new amusement park including three Tiger Dojos.
• Wookieepedia temporarily made Earth its featured article. See Earth at Wookieepedia.
• Zooomr changes name to Zooooomr^3 and boasts Flickr-esque layout
• [36] A RFD in [37] for the group uk.people.chavs
• Iexbeta.com "announced" that one of its administrators, Taco Bell, had taken over the website and rebranded it as Taco Beta.
• BitMeTV announced that due to server overload, roughly 1/3 of the site's membership would be disabled by random lottery within 24 hours, as that was the only way to fairly pick which accounts to purge. It then notified ALL members, via personalized messages, that they had been selected to be deleted.
• Ctrl+Alt+Del - The main characters Ethan, Lucas, and Lilah have all swapped outfits in the April 1st comic.
• deviantART announces a merger with myspace.com in their latest poll. $lolly makes mention of hacking and misappropriation of funds by a staff member and senior member in his April 1st Journal. A new Web 2.0 revamp is previewed in a screenshot. Furthermore, the literature Gallery Directors announced a new submission process which includes automatic filtering for "terrorism" related words.
• Distorted View Podcast Tim Henson edited the show to be in reverse order.
• Harry Potter fanfiction has announced that it will now be called MuggleCom.Net and will no longer feature fan-fiction stories but instead be more newsy. The layout is almost exactly the same as what MuggleNet's was, and the homepage features a variety of comical stories.
• Gullible.info makes a very subtle joke by posting an update of true trivia.
• Flickr has turned their Explore und Interestingnessinto a "cats only" extravaganza.
• Good-TutorialsAnnouncement of the 'new layout' is actually the two year old design
• Google Romance is announced by Google.[38][39]
• Harry Potter Fan Zone announced that it had been shut down by the Ministry of Magic.
• ihatebobcostas.com,reports it has taken Bob Costas,an American sports reporter, hostage on ransome of $5000 USD in the pricipality of Liechtenstein.
• Kotaku,Lifehacker and Gizmodo, all part of Gawker Media have dubbed Apirl 1st "Z-day" where humanity has been affected by an onslaught of zombies. Each site is treating the subject according to their specific topic (i.e. Gizmodo features Zombie related gadgets, Lifehacker discusses how to be successful in the post zombie apocalypse world).
• MuggleNet Has announced it will know be joined with The Leaky Cauldron to form The Leaky-Mug. Following the marriage of the owners of both sites Emerson Spartz and Melissa Anelli.
• NarniaWeb posted several hoaxes related to the next installment of The Chronicles of Narnia film series, including an announcement that Mr. T had been cast to voice Reepicheep the mouse.
• NationStates The Main page was changed to NationDates.
• Rebelscum reports that Madonna has been cast as an evil Sith witch in the upcoming Star Wars Televison Series.
• Seraphic, an online web comic, announced that a live action version of the story will air as a miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel this fall. The home page of the web site has been changed to look like a scifi.com page.
• Shur'tugal.com, an Eragon fansite, suddenly took on a mirrored layout, and all news on the home page stated very unlikely happenings, such as Edward Speleers, the actor playing Eragon in the new Eragon movie, being cast as Dorothy in "the upcoming remake of The Wizard of Oz."
• StarTrekOnline.net reported the "announcement" of the identity of the 9th playable race in Perpetual Entertainment's upcoming MMO Star Trek Online. The site immediately swore its allegience to Star Wars Galaxies, with a full main site redesign.
• Uknova The main page was changed to look like a BBC Article that reported the site (and others) had been taken down via a swoop against Bittorrent from the BBC.
• Wizards of the Coast announces that they will be publishing My Little Pony: The Roleplaying game as a d20 system game to introduce young girls into roleplaying games, and make them more likely to play Dungeons & Dragons when they are older.
• Yelp has announced that they have acquired the rights to the Pets.com dog sock puppet. The mascot is to be renamed "Yelpy the dog" and the amount of the purchase was not disclosed. Yelp Blog
• Ask Jeeves [40] has introduced a new search engine service called Rhyme Your Search, which returns your search with rhyming alternatatives.
• DeadSexy.org [41] has been taken over by monkey
• Fairly wholesome webcomic publisher Keenspot announces their first hardcore pornographic webcomic, Worser Than Worst.
• The nUbuntu Linux distribution homepage has adopted a pink background and a banner proclaiming "OMG PONIES!". Coincidentally, the nUbuntu team has been asked to cease development immediately, one day before April Fool's day. They have since posted an email address for people to send in emails of support to fight nUbuntu being shut down. as.proof.il@nubuntu.com (an anagram of April fool's)
• The Sonic Fan Games HQ Forums[42] had the discussion groups order reversed.
• LUElinks had changed its name to "LOLlinks", and the style of the site has been changed to match that of GameFAQs. The forum administrator, Llamaguy, changed his username to "Fagbox 9000".
• Stone Brewery, makers of Arrogant Bastard Ale, have released Bastard Oxide Energy Ale [43], aimed at the heavy metal crowd in need of a "pick me up."
• Un-official image hosting site for Anandtech -- pics.bbzzdd.com announced that it is being bought out by Yahoo! and merged with Flickr
• Zoto[44], a photo sharing site, announced[45] a new release supporting a whole host of MIDI file related features.
• Madison Parks of TheOneGreatX.com made a post stating that he was to be arrested for various crimes and would not return.
• Dark and Shattered Lands banned all non-christians from playing. When you log in you are prompted with: Do you renounce Satan and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour? Y/N. If you answer no you are not allowed to log in.
• Jpopmusic, a J-pop news and gossip site, announced[46] J-pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki being casted as Lady Shiva in the upcoming film, Batman Begins 2.
• whootah.com has been sold to Jonathan Hawkins of carowindsconnection.com for a lump sum of $2000. The new site is called whootahawkins.com
• http://www.ClevelandBrew.com claims access is denied for a user's IP address, and suggests they call the company vice president's (real) personal mobile phone number for assistance.
• WestJet, WestJet Asks Guests to Assist in Realizing Fuel Efficiencies...
• The Swedish Half-Life 2 site Halflife2.nu posts a news article with a press release stating that Valve will be merged with EA, who will integrate Steam into EA Downloader and develop the games Battlefield City 17 and The Sims™ 2: Black Mesa. (Site in Swedish, fake press release in English)
• Complexity Gaming along with "CNN Money" reports that the team has been sold to the youngest staff member working at the organization and that the owner will retire to Bermuda.
• albion arks,said that they had shut down the site and would make an "Arctic monkeys" fan site insted of the Libertines one.
• Music site PRP changed its design to a pink one.
• Firestream.net is a Christian rock/metal site that changed into a Gospel music website. Then the site was taken over by the moderators and liberated from Gospel.
• iChat's video support is added to ChatKit, and Adium with ChatKit replaces iChat in Mac OS X v10.5. [47]
• Studio7 displays a fake defacement page which exposes users to misleading links to various shock sites. The 'hacker' is titled '5irhc' (the webmaster's name backwards).
• Onetreehillweb.net announced that they had decided to become an OC fansite, 'The OC Connection' and had ditched One Tree Hill because it was getting a bit boring.
• Forumer.com, a free message board host, posted a press release stating that they were acquired by Google
• A UK based Blogger posts his experiences on his blog [48] of "accidental hypnotism" where, whilst listening to a hypnotism track on his IPod the batteries ran out half-way through. He then "became hynotised" by the film Full Metal Jacket which was playing in the background into believing he was a member of the Viet Cong army and could apparently now speak in Vietnamese on his mobile phone.
• New Element - a popular Roller Coaster Tycoon Website was taken over by SU182, an unpopular pre-teen member of the community.
• A popular internet forum for University at Buffalo students was mistakenly ravaged by the news of the death of a great friend and user known as Yoasif. His supposed last words: "i told u i was hardcore."
• AntonioMassa.com It is reported that the owner of the website has been jailed for "the goat incident" and there will be a posting strike until his release from prison.
• Digital Pandemic renamed themselves "CNet Digital Pandemic", added advertisements and changed all users themes to a CNet theme.
• Binary Revolution Forums puts into place a teddy bear theme, complete with a red and white checkered background.
• Planet Debian reported that Linus Torvalds has become a Debian GNU/Linux Developer and now runs a blog.
• Spread Debian changed total amount of referrals to 1337 (variation of Leet).
• [49] launches new site where users can earn free cars.
• VCDQuality resident members add a false release of "Lucky Number Slevin" supposedly released by group "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZVCD". The prank originates from the excitement for the release of the movie by a member of the VCDQuality forums, "Mystic Slippers"
• No-Intro Video Game preservation project announces they end their efforts on this day due to various reasons.
• AllAboutJazz.com hosts a review of their new release Monk meets the Beatles containing interpretations of Beatles tunes by Thelonious Monk
• 500px.com Photodigest publishes "best" images that were carefully gathered throughout the months from real photographers.
• TheForce.net forums are renamed from "Jedi Council Forums" to "Potentium Forums", and the banner now includes some Sith characters.
• nanocolo.com announces the first Linux on iPod nano hosting service.
• New English Review announces that Muslims will be holding an anti-Islam demonstration in London.
• Kathy Sierra announces her latest book The Emo Programmer (written with David Heinemeier Hansson), which describes the new methodology called Emotional Programming™ (The official press release describes the Emo Programmer™ as one who strives to craft the most user-friendly, accessible, and inspiring applications)
• Kirby's Rainbow Resort was changed into "META WARP'S SUPER HAPPY FUN LAND!!!!!1". In addition, the forums got non-sensical filters; for example, "Kirby" changes into "William Shatner" while "Kirby's Rainbow Resort" is replaced by "Captain Crunch's Communist Resort".
• Mininova announced on their blog [50] Google acquired the torrent giant as part of an innovative development project.
• Yahoo! Music has some interesting videos today.
• Kiefer Sutherland to appear on ABC's Lost, according to TV.com [51]
• Neocolours pulled a variety of unrelated pranks similar to NoHomers.net: flipping the board logo upside down, listing everyone as a monitor, making members like Chuck Norris, filtering several words, putting a fake 'disclaimer' beneath everyone's posts and messed with their colour finder.
• Patchou posted a thread on the Messenger Plus! message boards claiming that his popular MSN Messenger plug-in, Messenger Plus!, had been bought by Microsoft.
• Haeleth mentions that he has managed to license Kanon for North America and is working out deals with GameStop and Wal-Mart to release it commercially.
• The webcomic Press Start To Play [52] added wordfilters to their forums[53], so that the words "I" "The" and "You" would change into "mesa" "SAUSAGE" and "yousa" respectively. Adam Law and Darryl Walker also changed their usernames to Bert and Ernie
• WinInizio.it had multiple April Fools hoaxes [54] [55] [56] [57]
• Gism Dot Net reversed some of the text on its front page. Half assery at its finest.
• TRMK reports that Capcom and Midway are to release Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter for Xbox Live Arcade.
• Bluemist's Anime Blog posted intentional spam.
• The Mugen Fighters Guild, a M.U.G.E.N site, became "The StepMania Dancers Guild".
• Brainshrub.com Political blogger gives up on politics and switches site to a cheesy HTML porn format. However, the links simply loop and never deliver promised nude pictures.
• OCRemix has po* Blogging software WordPress and Textpattern announce they have merged to form WordPattern.
• Italian Science Fiction news magazine Fantascienza.com [58] has several news including one claiming that the Star Trek fanchise has been acquired from NBC Universal and that a sequel to Blade Runner is on the way.
• MPAA sues a P2P version control company Reliable Software for facilitating the distribution of copyrighted movies.
• Online comic Jack of All Blades creator Art Frederick was laid off while his partner Zach Lewis created a poorly done photocomic called Zach! Of All Blades
• Online retailer geeks.com advertised a "GeekThing" combination cell-phone/PDA/MP3 player/recorder/GPS/Universal remote/hologram projector.... here and here
• Political blog Latte reports that Donald Rumsfeld has accepted responsibility for the failure in Iraq and resigned.
• Tech blog site Deep Thought reports that now-former Apple exec Avie Tevanian will be leading Microsoft's Windows Vista development.
• The Adventurers! webcomic changed to "POLITICAL ROOMMATES!", making a non-joke concerning George W. Bush.
• The Dungeons & Dragons website reverts back to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition artwork, and announces a new line of miniatures, including Modrons and the Invisible Stalker ("so much more than just an empty base").
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation sent an email to their EFFector mailing list describing, among other things, Google Brain and a Sony/Monsanto rootkit consortium.
• The Canadian Deals Blog, SmartCanucks.ca posted that Apple Corp. celebrated its 30th anniversary by allowing owners of old iPods to exchange their iPods for a brand new iPod Video 30GB for only $49.99. They also mentioned that Apple stated only black iPod videos were part of this exchange deal.
• The personal weblog of S.Tabani reported that he is moving to Antarctica to conduct research as part of a group and will study at the University of Antarctica [59]
• The webmaster of [60] Sated that he has quit flash programming and has decided to percue a life as a buddist monk in the himalayas.
• Bob and George has "no comic today on account of devious recolor traps".
• LoadingReadyRun posted a new video apolgizing to Uwe Boll in regards to an older video insulting his movies.
• Shoutwire, a public controlled news site, reported that George W. Bush had been arrested by a UN Black Ops team for instigating an illegal war in Iraq
• Simple Machines Forum Everyone with 1000+ posts was given a staff badge, while one member pretended to be a spy from vBulletin
• The Noob, a popular online comic, has a new comic up saying that the comic is over, and the writer quits.
• Tucker Max posts a story involving Slingblade, himself, alcohol, and a pig.
• Veritaserum.com, a Harry Potter website, announced a "new and improved veritaserum" by changing its layout to a very old-fashioned one. One of the first layouts that the website had.
• WordReference, the online English, French, Spanish and Italian dictionary, renamed all its language forums (for instance, the Spanish-French forum became "Chorizos and Croissants" and the Comments and Suggestions section became "Pooh’s Corner"). The site also declared all forum moderators had been sacked. [61]
• ffmpeg was modified to print an error message saying "Use a real OS!" when run on Microsoft Windows.
• PotdParadiso.com, a spin off site of PotD on Gamefaqs, replaced the normal skin of the website with a skin that designates a pokemon for each user. The pokemon is tiled across the text field.
• zeldalounge announces it was taken over by wucha See here.
• [62] Aeon Genesis site starts out with "DEAD END" in large red letters.
• ComingSoon.net, a movie-industry news site, reveals numerous projects being tossed around Hollywood as vehicles for box office sensation Tyler Perry's Madea character.
• Cross+Flame Interfaith Community announces it has converged with two conservative christian forums and two non-theist forums and drawn up plans for a OneForumAlliance.
• The Tiger Pep Band at DePauw University changed their website design to lampoon the Wabash Pep Band from arch-rival school Wabash College. The site includes a news release picking on drinking habits at Wabash.
• Yandex, the biggest Russian internet portal, announces "Dream of the Webmaster", which gives everyone chance to put their site on the top of the search results on certain query. They called it "instant promotion".
• Dropline becomes sponsored by a corporate entity and changes the name of its desktop to Doopline.
• EZTVEfnet shows a MPA/GVU "You Can Click But You Can't Hide" image.
• Soulseek Forum caused much frustration amongst users by replacing basic words in their posts with lines of comically erotic text such as "He ripped off her dress, lifted her easily through the air and lowered her naked peche de plaisir toward his face." and "Regardez! He whisked off his pants and his baton sprang forth."
• FSTDT (a popular atheist site that makes fun of christian quotes) The author of that site has placed a message saying that he has undergone a full religeous conversion and is now a fully fledged christian.
• HackTek.net made it look like their page got defaced.
• IdahoFallz.com, claims Idaho's capital was moved overnight from Boise to Idaho Falls [63].
• IdahoFallz.com, claims new McDonald’s restaurant will be constructed on Idaho Falls’ Keefer Island [64].
• Outpost Mâvarin blogger Karen Funk Blocher suddenly acquired twin children, an extra dog and publication of her Mâvarin novels (retrospectively), apparently resulting from a multicolored vortex over the skies of Tucson, AZ. Her profile claimed she was "a research fellow at the University of Arizona's Mitty Institute for Creative Acronyms (MICA)."
• PlanetCnC Quickmatch - planetCnC, a member of the Gamespy network, offers a quickmatch online dating service similar to service found in Command & Conquer branded games.
• Pouet.net decided to stay offline the whole day.
• Pokemon Emerald MA has had several forum changes, including: Changing Member titles(ex. Members=Fuzzy Wuzzy Bunny) and putting up a pink skin with the phrase "OMG Ponies!" included in the banner.
• Fire Emblem Sanctuary of Strategy Forums, the largest of forums about the game series Fire Emblem, has banned many of its most important moderators, including the root admin Superbus. In addition, many other members have been randomly promoted to admin status, and various "revolution and up-rising" theme threads have popped up in various parts of the forum. Additionally, there has been an annoucement of a Fire Emblem game for the Nintendo DS, which no one seems to know if it is true or not.
• Manolo's Shoe Blog has been taken over by the evil Karl Lagerfeld!
• The Vast Empire, a Star Wars gaming/roleplaying club, has announced that its domain has been suspended, though, of course, "service" will be restored once enough members get the joke. This follows previous stunts such as a false cease-and-desist letter from Lucasarts.
• WideURL.com is released. This site complements TinyURL.com: it makes URLs wider.
• WiTendoFi.com, a Nintendo WFC link up site, announces the latest Legend of Zelda game for the Nintendo DS with WiFi Support.
• WiTendoFi.com, a Nintendo WFC link up site, announces a new way to find gamers to play.
• [65] pranks non-staff members by making all text in their Private Communication system invisible unless you highlight it.
• BastionsofWar PvP Neverwinter Nights server has announced a vault wipe and new role play requirements.
• BlizzPub made the display of their forums backwards, making the site near unreadable.
• Boakes.org started a rumour in advance of April 1 that Apple planned to reveal the first ever advert to be visible from space [66], in honour of its 30th Anniversary, which coincides with April Fools Day. The backstory described how [Steve Jobs] built the advert on a disused mineral mine that he won in a game of Poker, from Australian billionaire [Kerry Packer]. On April 1st, the hoax was revealed [67] by switching the content of the Google Earth placemark (which is re-served with each viewing) to reveal a 40Km² 3d rendering of "April Fool!" straddling the iPod.
• Boards.ie announce takeover by the nationwide loathed ISP, Eircom, although the website itself has spawned an anti-eircom movement, following the creation of the acclaimed Irelandoffline - resulting in the mass outrage by many of the websites followers.
• Booble.com has announced their purchase of AOL to form AOOL. (Press release here)
• CheapAssGamer forum wordfilters "fuck" to the logo for Shaq-Fu.
• Diggnation Drinking Edition Site opens with a seize and decist letter from revision 3 and diggnation.
• DS-R Announcement of site being fake hacked.
• DSMeet was changed to a turtle lover's community.
• EatYourExam.com, a blog about miscellaneous tech and gaming news, reported that the PlayStation 3 console was cancelled by Sony due to Blu-Ray complications!
• Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant reports several fabricated literary news items, including James Frey revealing himself to be J.T. Leroy.
• ExtremePKI released a photo showing the Son of Beast (roller coaster) missing its famous loop. Link to picture
• Fanjita, creator of the eLoader that allows homebrew games to be played on upgraded PSP systems, announced the end of the eLoader project.
• Games Bids.com Reports the IOC is planning a permament host for the Winter Olympics in Antartictia. The first WOG would apparently take place in 2018.
• [68] flipped their logo upside-down.
• Gaming Trend has released a review and screenshots for Pimps at Sea
• GCFL Press Release Playboy magazine has announced this morning that it has reached a preliminary agreement to purchase GCFL, a popular family-friendly entertainment web site and mailing list, for nearly $1.1 million.
• GTAReview.com, popular Polish website about GTA told people that today Rockstar will give them some screenshots from GTA4 (PS3 Version).
• HardwareXL.com has changed their site layout to resemble Japan.
• Hed Cycling offers the "Stalingrad", a nearly 47 pound "descent wheel". [69]
• Hellbound, a webcomic, announced that it would be shutting down and replaced with another webcomic, Spellbound, set in the D&D universe. This was in reference to a popular guest comic done previously for webcomic Order of the Stick
• Here Lie Monsters MUCK borrowed login screens from many other MUCKs, replacing its own login with other MUCKs' logins in random rotation
• JakeBouma.com announced being purchased by a fake developer from Mozilla's Lightning project.
• JonoF.com, a page about First Person Shooters based on the famous BUILD Engine, presents itself as a Antiques Shop.
• Msgshit provides a link to a Hotmail Password Cracker.
• Nerd Herd Studios, a site featuring artists and webcomics, has claimed to become a pay-only site featuring abstract erotica for the art-minded.
• EnjoyNIRVANA is claiming that there's a second NIRVANA BoxSet to be released this summer, along with a Live DVD.
• Ollie's Place, taken offline due to threats of legal action relating to the websites forum.
• Overheard in New York, a site that posts random quotes from New Yorkers that have been overheard by the submitters, redirects to Overheard in Space, which of course has nothing oveheard.
• Pokecharms.com - Reported that Jack Thompson had e-mailed GamesPolitics, Hilary Clinton, WalMart, Hiroshi Yamauchi and Nintendo companies behind Pokemon attempting to have the games banned because they feature 'unchristian animal cruelty'.
• PS2HD.COM announces it was bought out by scene rival ps2-scene.org.
• QuizLaw announced Congress' quick passage of the Anarchy Bill of 2006.
• RCTgo announces their change in focus to showing "love for RCT3" and changes their layout to a bright pink and purple layout on both the forums and the site.
• RIPtheSYSTEM, a Mega Man X fancomic, announced in in their forum RIPtheSYSTEMtext, promising to address their "less-fortunate" text browsing audience with ASCII comics and Angband clones.
• Rkstar.com, a music news website, posted "News of The Weird", which lists stories such as a man getting stuck as a silhouette while dancing to his iPod, and Mozart releasing a DVD.
• sjhoward.co.uk claimed to have been bought by Google.
• The Daily Breakfast Podcast Father Roderick announced that his archdiocese was shutting down his podcast due to the amount of time he spends on it.
• [70] Swedish torrentsite suddenly starts looking like lunarstorm.se.
• The Third Half - An Off-Topic messageboard, often visited by Football Manger fans was informed that the next installment of Sports Interactive's Football Manager was to be the last.
• TouchDS announced that due to the lack of good DS games, the site will be changed to a Xbox 360 fansite.
• Ultimate-Guitar, a guitar tablature website, posted on March 31 a bunch of pop music related news, provoking angry comments from hard core rock and roll and heavy metal fans that visit the site regulary. Some of the headlines posted were Britney Spears Immortalized in Controversial Sculpture and Paris Hilton To Hit The Studio.
• Undone, a webcomic, announced a change in the art style of the comic due to art school stealing most of the artist's free time.
• United Bimmer - BMW forums overrun with pink and non-tasteful ricer modding.
• VGRC.net announces that Microsoft is halting sales of the Xbox 360 Core System, and forcing developers to make games that require the hard drive, essentially forcing Core System owners to buy the hard drive add-on. It also gets listed on digg
• Vnunet.com says that Google will spend US$1 billion dollars to "brand its logo into the surface of the moon so that it is visible from Earth."

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• The Voice Acting Alliance changed their entire message boards, including a new layout, to focus on the anime series Inuyasha. Also, members have posted radio plays, fake fanart, etc. related to Inuyasha. This was done to mock the recent influx of forum members who post incessantly about the show. Those very same members do NOT get the joke.
• WHT announces that one of their admins is becoming a female, one of their mods has already become a female and that they are going to start charging for posts.
• WebHostingTalk, a community orientated around the hosting industry, renamed most of its forums to reflect names of Harry Potter books.
• Weebls-Stuff reported that the creator, Jonti, had been hit by a car around mid day, a report which was taken seriously by many of its forum's members. As co-writer Skoo elaborated with reports throughout the day about mass murderers in the area and gunfire being heard while he desperately tried to get to the hospital, the penny dropped.
• WiebeTech announced the gigantiPod - a music jukebox that holds up to 2.5 million songs - basically their RT5 RAID box with an iPod strapped to it. Also on their list was the ToughBit hard drive (the drive stores one bit, but uses quantum mechanics to access an infinite number of drives in parallel universes), the RWB Read-and-Write Blocker (a hammer), and the Firmware Wand (magically solves all your troubles using firmware).
• WildRoadTrip.com announced that it raised all $100,000 for its trip when Google purchased 100% of the advertising space.
• Zend FrameworkA new mail lib feature offering auto dection making it easier to use because it doesn't need configration. It searches a POP3 server and even cracks an account if needed.
• ticalc.org created a false "placeholder" index site, with all links returning to the front page.
• The Intelligent Agent [71] tells us that Yahoo! has purchased Dialog Information Services from Thomson
• Boston Dirt Dogs reports Boston Red Sox Slugger Manny Ramirez will retire before the start of the 2006 season.
• Go Nintendo changed its banner to Go Microsoft.
• eXg -Sabooya announced that doom4 will be released
• Fark airs a variety of different homepages, including a safe for work "frog porn", A user abuse tool in which you can ban users, a 1997 cache and a page stating that it has been blocked by the non-existent webfilter.
• Kitchen Island, a Wario fansite, became "Mario Land", a site about Wario's doppelgänger.
• ReturnToThePit got "Zack Attacked" in a fake hacking example
• RSR Clan pretended to have made a deal with playboy, the entire site is in pink and members are asked to apply for an interview.
• Suikox.com announced that it was closing down, and all of its content had been sold to TheirStar.com
• The Widget Changed its forum to be a member of the shows fansite for..."happy" people. And announced the specs of a new SEGA console on their Podcast (most of their listeners fell for it)
• TreeHugger.com - Announced that we could "Stop Daylight Savings and End Global Warming"[72]
• VideoGameRecaps replaced its forum's user database to a bunch of game characters, recreating a certain ban-related incident that happened in the boards last year, with Tidus from Final Fantasy X taking the role of the aforementioned banned user.
• Xbox 360 Forum reports that Microsoft is cutting the price of Xbox 360 by $100.
• Aunty Agony quits blogging about spanking to become a home improvement guru. (Warning: contains content some may find offensive or unsuitable for children.)
• Livejournal is taken over by Pirate interns. They promise "lots of cool and possibly pirate-oriented features."
• Airsoft Retreat announces that they have been bought by ESPN.
• Arizona's Irongloves Boxing announces they will be teaching Ballet Boxing, which is a combination of Ballet and Boxing.
• Nerd Paradise was taken over by a domain squatter.
• Action Doom 2 is being previewed on Doomworld.
• The Specialists changes their frontpage to imitate 4chan, including a contents frame, with links to 'different boards', which actually link to the forums, specific threads, or to PM specific users.
• Half-Life Fallout member Warrior has banned the recently made admin W-ninja!
• Lost Solution, an independent flash game studio, posted that they have decided to dedicate themselves to "making more family-friendly entertainment" by instead creating content about cute Ponies. The forums also were filled with "PONYZ" every other word.
• Sputnik Music Forums has added a Washboard instrument forum and a Polka music forum to its list. Emails that appeared to be from administrator Double Bass Jim were sent to members stating that they were being offered a moderator position and should post a new thread if they wanted to be modded.
• Cereals Solutions launched, a parody site of library software vendor Serials Solutions.
• The Daily WTF This post involves a previous poster's fictional adventures with his employer and posting company code.
• SleepyWood The homepage links to a fake "This Account Has Been Suspended" message.
• freenode tells all their users to flood OFTC. [73]
• Grano Salis blogExcel Services integration with Xbox 360
• Mega Geable, a sprite comic, changed much of its page text and the dialogue in the last several strips to the name "Honoka" repeated over and over. The title banner was similarly changed, and most of the characters appearing on it were replaced with Yukishiro Honoka in various poses. (Honoka is not a major character in Mega Geable, but the comic's author is a fan of the character.)
• The message boards associated with The Moogle Cavern, Coldflame, and Sonic Vegemite each announced that they were down (with different excuses--MoogleMB was the victim of a botched database transfer, The Coldflame Forums's administrator wanted to take a break, and SVMB was overloaded and needed to clean out its database). Forumers at MoogleMB were directed to post at Coldflame until the board could be restored, Coldflame posters were pointed to SVMB, and SVMB to MoogleMB.
• informationleak the website's text has been converted to 1337.
• Yahooligans fools kids with 'Common Scents'.
• New openssh remove buffer overlow was discovered by Metasploit
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation published a bunch of stories including one about the "Google Brain" and free access to NSA files with EFF membership
• The International Fair Use Day team denounced fair use as the work of Satan.

• Free Internet Press published several stories, some completely imaginary events and some real news that should have been jokes.

Mars Rover Finds Definite Sign Of Life Bush To End Income Tax! Establishment Coverup Bush preps historic Third Term - memo (From TheRegister.co.uk] Dragons and Unicorns and Gryphons, Oh My China Buys Google Bush Confused On Global Warming There Is No Global Warming US Plans To Drop 0.7 Kiloton Bomb On Nevada Rice Welcome With Boo's, Admitted "Tactical Errors" Welcome, USSR Corp. U.N. investigator: I have proof of prisons InuYasha )[1] is a popular shōnen manga and anime series created by Rumiko Takahashi. ... In computing, RAID (a redundant array of inexpensive disks, also later known as redundant array of independent disks) is a system which uses multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. ... A white 5th Generation iPod (iPod with video) with a case and earbuds. ... For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to Quantum mechanics. ... A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) that together comprise all of physical reality. ... Wario ) is a fictional Nintendo video-game character with a Sicilian accent/dialect who was created as an antagonist to Mario and has since become the protagonist of his own games. ... For other uses of this name, see Mario (disambiguation). ... A doppelgänger ( ) is the ghostly double of a living person. ... The term podcasting is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting. ... Official language(s) None Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Area  Ranked 6th  - Total 113,998 sq mi (295,254 km²)  - Width 310 miles (500 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 0. ... The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ... Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo Dominguez (left) vs. ... Doomworlds front page Doomworld is the oldest unofficial news website dedicated to the computer game Doom, having been founded in 1998. ... 4chan (Japanese:: Yotsuba, lit. ... The title of this article should be freenode. ... OFTC (Open and Free Technology Community) is, like Freenode, an IRC network which is particularly popular with free and open source software programmers. ... Futari wa Pretty Cure (ふたりはプリキュア) (often shorted simply to Pretty Cure or PreCure) is a magical girl anime series, currently one of the most famous, running in Japan. ... EFF Logo The EFF uses the blue ribbon as symbolism for their Free Speech defense. ...

• Sierra Mist along with TBS had a video news clip on yahoo's front page, which mentioned that in NYC, a new law was inforced that did not allow passengers on subways to talk anymore. The showed actual footage and signs in the subways and someone being arrested for talking. At the end was a flash animation of the sierra mist can laughing. April fools joke.

[74]DDR Freak adds encoding changing all posts on its forums into jibberish.

• Trekcore.com [75] said that they were moving beyond Star Trek and moving on to the future of science fiction: Ewoks. They even registered Ewokcore.com [76]
• Freshmeat.net created a new service called Help is on the Way to provide support for the majority of the apps they host.
• Python Software Foundation announced a licensing change, indicating that royalties will be needed for commercial usage of the Python programming language Python programming language.
• COSForums, Mugglenets official forums, had a prank when it put up a message saying that its servers had a Meltdown and that all information was lost. [77] It was later explained that you could have bypassed the "screen of death" by clicking the "contact us" button. [78]
• dothackers.net put a torrent of the English version of the game .hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Resurrection due out in the fall on their site.
• Revo-News Put up "insider" news on what the Nintendo Revolution's last secret is, Ultimate Ass Kicking Technology.
• Pebble Version, a pokémon web comic, posted a strip announcing that that author was changing the comic's style to attract additional readers.
• Furcadia, a popular MMOG, claimed to be magically switching all of its main maps from 8-bit graphics to 24-bit graphics; Instead, these new graphics turned out to be crudely drawn stickfigures, much to the amusement of players. Also, whenever a player would bump into any solid object, including any other player, the screen would flip upside down until they ran into an object again. Later in the day, Talzhemir, or another mod, emitted across the game that anyone whispering "wings" to Talz would receive free wings.

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On television

• BBC One's soccer show Football Focus reported on a FIFA directive that would see persistent divers made to wear a bright yellow armband in order to make them more identifiable to fans and referees. If one of these players is caught diving again, they would receive a straight red card.
• The music channel Magic TV held a "Christmas Magic" morning, showing seasonal music videos.
• Arsenal FC defender Ashley Cole, appearing on Channel 4's 'T4' show pretended that he was set to release a duet with his fiancee Cheryl Tweedy, which would involve him rapping on it.
• TG2 news at Italian Public TV Broadcast RAI's announced a new miracolous diet pill called SlimmiXL. The pill should be accompanied with a diet rich of fish.
• ORT news has reported that from now on they are going to transmit stereoscopic (Anaglyph) picture only along with the with the methods of making 3d glasses from a DIY-type program's presenter.
• VRT news in Belgium announced that the government would be distributing free coupons for a sun tanning session, in an effort to help people with spring fatigue caused by the long winter. Candidates were asked to call a particular phone number.
• Larry McReynolds and Matt Yocum of FX Networks pranked Darrell Waltrip during Final Practice of the NASCAR DirecTV 500 at Martinsville Speedway announcing that as soon as the cars leave the track, track officials were tearing it up and adding progressive banking.
• NBC ran some Public service announcements in the style of the "The More You Know" campaign, done by cast members of "The Office", while in character. [79]
• NRK news in Norway reported (Norwegian) on a new bylaw requiring all dogs to be tied up and kept out of urban areas to combat bird flu. The news report featured interviews with some of the politicans in charge of the changes.
• ZDF reported that the United Nations wants to build a cabled line around the equator of the world. Even through oceans, amazon forests and Kenyan wildlife.
• The UK version of Deal or No Deal revealed in their ending credits The Banker's name was Richard Oldman, which can be shortened to "Rich Old Man". The board at the start of the show also displayed 'Noel or No Noel' instead of 'Deal or No Deal', referring to the show's host Noel Edmonds.
• Veronica announced to all TV guides that it would air Mission Impossible III on Saturday night. The movie has yet to hit the theaters.

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On the radio

• The Adam Carolla Show played a prank on their producer, making him think a bunch of F-bombs let loose on the air, when instead they played a pre-recorded message.[80]
• On March 31, 2006, 96.7 KDOG radio in Mankato, MN switched to "Kung-Pao FM" and has continuosly played top Chinese hits all day April 1st.
• On Free Talk Live a caller reported that the United States military is going to add armored combat deep fryers to their inventory in an effort to increase troop morale and recruiting numbers.
• On NPR's Weekend Edition - Saturday, Scott Simon reported on A Perilous Encounter with the I-Bod, an I-Pod like device that can control bodily functions.
• On March 29th, 2006 95.5 WBRU, an alternative rock station in Providence, RI announced that they were being bought out, and would cease operations by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 31st. Soon after WBRU went off the air, Buddy FM, a parody of the Jack FM radio format, began broadcasting random pop and techno music along with occasional pre-recorded station bumps until a mock takeover was staged by WBRU DJs at 12:16 p.m. on April 1st. The prank continued in some form until roughly 4:09 p.m., April 1st.
• On Weekend Edition, the Saturday news program of National Public Radio, host Scott Simon tried out a medical device known as the "iBod" with the help of its "inventors." The iBod was supposedly capable of arbitrarily altering a person's biological functions, and Simon experienced a heart rate of over 250 bpm with the turn of a dial. [81]
• On All Things Considered, the evening news program of National Public Radio, Alice Furlaud reports on an initiative by an opera impresario, under the influence of the writings of optimist Norman Vincent Peale, to rewrite the endings of famous operas, making them all "happy instead of sad." Don Giovanni, instead of being dragged unrepentant to Hell by a marble statue, is born again and goes with angels to Heaven; Tristan und Isolde, instead of ending with the Liebestod (love-death), ends with the "love-life", as it turns out Tristan had merely a flesh wound in the preceding battle. [82]
• On 702 ABC Sydney in Australia, weekend presenter Simon Marnie conducted the last hour of the show from a Collins class submarine in Sydney Harbour that departed from the Australian National Maritime Museum. The submarine docked to pick up passengers including fellow presenter Tony Eastley and a lucky 702 Sydney listener. The program ended when the submarine was submerged and attacked by a sea monster.
• On Triple J Radio in Australia, morning hosts were claiming that, to celebrate 'Urban month' the station was going to be changing for the entire months play list to only feature hip hop, much to the complaint of many listeners calling in. Triple J played non-stop hip hop til noon and had many promotions already set up to play for the up coming month, enhancing the joke's credibility.
• BBC Radio 4's Today Programme announces that the UK Theme (which has really been scheduled for scrapping) is to be replaced with a European Union Theme. Listen to it here
• On 2-Ten FM in the United Kingdom, the station claims that an elephant is causing traffic problems on the M4.
• On BBC Three Counties Radio, presenter Justin Dealey told listeners that from the end of this month, there would be a new car radio license of £200 a year. If you didn’t want to pay it, you would have to take your radio out of the vehicle.
• Oldies station Capital Gold in London promoted a new classical breakfast show, featuring Classic FM presenter Simon Bates. "No more Beatles - just a new relaxing breakfast show."
• On 102.2 Smooth FM in London, listeners were told women of a certain 'size' would be refused entry onto various attractions at Thorpe Park in Surrey.
• On RTE Radio 1, The Derek Mooney Show announced the construction of a dual carriage way and a ten foot high wall through Phoenix Park
• Capital FM announced that they had installed a smellophone and encouraged digital listeners to sniff their radios, reported that Tony and Cherie Blair had painted the door of 10 Downing Street red.
• 103.4 Sun FM Weekend Breakfast Show team reported that Niall Quinn, if he bought SAFC he would, as a deal, have part of the River Wear re-named The River Niall
• Red FM Reports that the UK and Ireland , in an effort to comply with the rest of the EU member countries, are to start driving on the right hand side of the road. Trials are to begin in the two capitals, Dublin and London.
• nonstopdvr rebranded itself to another station name for 12 hours.
• In Kansas City, Missouri, USA, radio station KUDL has gone to an all Christmas Music Format.
• In Chicago WXRT faked cancelling their weekly Saturday Morning Flashback.
• In Albuquerque, radio commercials say the New Mexico government has approved pushing daylight savings time ahead two hours instead of one. The commercial urges listeners to look at the calendar and 'note the date'. It also says if you have questions to go to www.daylightsavings.us
• On Radio Sport in New Zealand, show host Phil Gifford and Doug Golightly claimed that rugby league star Stacey Jones was going to play rugby union for Northland upon the expiry of his French rugby league contract. They added that he had also received a special dispensation from Les Catalans to join the Auckland Blues squad for the last six matches of the Super 14 season. This was perpetuated by Jones' close friend Peter Leitch appearing on the show 'furious' about his personal conversation with the hosts being put on air.
• On Quirks and Quarks on CBC Radio, Bob McDonald interviewed a zoologist who had discovered a Vietnamese dog-like animal whose metabolism could cure global warming, and then eaten the sole specimen because he was hungry.
• On Louisville, Ky's 99.7 FM DJX, Peter B. and Kelly K. informed listeners of a "Non-Smoker's Tax" A website was mentioned and the Dj's sounded pretty informed and serrious about the situation. One outraged listener called in only to be informed on air (and later re-aired via commercial) to search for more info on Google by searching "April Fools"
• On Radio London (Big L) a news item referred to a new European directive to introduce a new 'Digital Metric Clock'. A French spokesperson was heard to announce the changes.
• Life in Alaska [83] changed its name to "Life in Los Angeles." relating to 100 seconds in a minute 100 minutes in an hour and 10 hours in a day.

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In newspapers and magazines

• New Zealand's Otago Daily Times claimed that a sponsorship and advertising deal had been done between the Mitre 10 chain of hardware stores and the New Zealand Department of Conservation over the Otago Royal Albatross colony [84]. The DoC would get funds to protect the birds, and in return the adult birds would be dyed in the chain's corporate colour, orange.

• The Independent explored Sylvia Plath's forgotten affair with Chuck Berry, along with various other unlikely celebrity pairings. [85]

• Science News found a new work by Euclid. [86]

• Electronic Gaming Monthly claimed that the new iGame, an Apple portable gaming device, is being released on page 32. It also claimed that iTunes was to have an iGame section for buying games for new device.

• Game Informer published its annual parody of its own magazine called "Game Infarcer".

• The Taipei Times in Taiwan claims to have blown the cover off of a secret weapons program utilizing betel nut extract, employing "an aerosol-dispersal device to shower enemy positions with red betel-nut juice, leaving enemy personnel feeling slightly ill, while possessing them with an uncontrollable desire to sing at a KTV." [87]

• The Straits Times in Singapore published an article with the headline "Visitors going ape over Zoo's new primate exhibit", claiming that Singapore Zoo is set to extend its primate family with "a pair of the highly intelligent apes Simia mina - close relatives of gorillas and chimpanzees which have been documented communicating vocally, using tools and even walking upright". However, this is "stirring up a controversy" as the "Simia mina are in an enclosure not much bigger than the bedroom of an HDB flat, and will be kept there till April 31".

• The Economist claims that a company called GeneDupe plans to genetically engineer pet dragons. [88]

• The Daily Express reports that biscuits are good and strong and are been used to build our roads!

• The Daily Mail announces that Cherie Blair has insisted that the door to 10 Downing Street be painted red, and that apples will be grown with barcodes already on them.

• The Guardian runs with the headline - "Their wives met at yoga. Now Chris plans to rock the vote for Cameron's Tories." The story claims that Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin has written a new anthem for the British Conservative Party called "Talk to David". The song expresses his disillusionment with Tony Blair, his admiration for David Cameron[89], and is available for download. Their money section also alleges that an alternative to the Chip and PIN card verification system - Kiss and PIN - is being trialled.

• "The Sydney Morning Herald" ad features the new HP Scratch-n-Sniff Server.

• "Mikrobitti" Net. Nyt reporters have come up with Knome, two widely used Open Source Desktop Environments KDE and Gnome have merged into Knome. KDE ja Gnome lyövät hynttyyt yhteen .[90]

• Ziua [91] in Romania reports that the Parliament of Moldova, in an action supported by President Vladimir Voronin, has asked to be united with Romania. This development frightened Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko into ceding the Budjak and Northern Bukovina to Romania as well.

• The Sun reports that a penguin had been spotted in the Thames.

• The Times tells us about the new Chip and Sing[92] whilst also running full page ads for a BMW that is pixel-coated and that Rugby Union referees are to wear glasses from now on. An advert for computer mice that can read credit cards was also in there. The supplement Body and Soul contained an article connecting facial hair with an intelligence.

• Ekstra Bladet in Denmark reports, that the former foreign minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen converted to Islam in 2005. In Danish

• De Telegraaf, biggest newspaper in The Netherlands, opens with a shocking headline: Loads of the Queen Beatrix's private correspondence got lost and has been published on Limewire, a popular file sharing programme.

• The Calgary Herald reviews "Brokeback Mountain: The Game" and gives it a perfect score.

• The Vancouver Sun of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, contains an article announcing a leaked (no pun) description of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games' Opening Ceremony at BC Place Stadium, in which the floor of the domed stadium would be flooded to hold ceremonies on a marine theme and the Games' mascot would be Howdy Dew, a stylized raindrop and humourous poke at Vancouver's climate. Elsewhere an editorial opines on supposed scientific advances that would allow direct transmission of newspaper content to subsribers' memory.

• The Daily Record announced that the 10 pence coin would be withdrawn from circulation in Scotland since "you can't buy anything with it except a downmarket English tabloid" (The Sun) [93], [94]

• Logan Jenkins in the San Diego Union-Tribune ran a number of items about the election to replace Duke Cunningham in the California 50th Congressional District, including an assertion that a photograph of candidate Howard Kaloogian alleged to be in front of Mount Ararat was actually taken near Mount Palomar.

• Spin magazine contained a review of a new Guns N' Roses album, Chinese Democracy.

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Events mistaken as April Fool's Day hoaxes

Genuine events that had been interpreted as April Fool's Day hoaxes included:

• The Simpsons Movie was confirmed today in many newsites and papers. Also the trailer was paired with Ice Age: The Meltdown.
• Bob Ross Inc. announces a Bob Ross video game on March 31st and details can be viewed here: [95][96]
• F-Secure announced the release of the Moomin-character themed F-Secure Internet Security product on their blog [97], but this was followed-up with a blog post 3 days later [98] confirming that the product is in fact genuine.
• Ogrish reports a bizarre baby born in Nepal (note: these links contain images of the child's body) [99] The baby, who appeared to have anencephaly, died shortly after birth. This was reported on a major Nepal news site on March 29th.
• Radio 538 awarded a select group of listeners who would come with their bags packed to a train station in Rotterdam, a major city in the Netherlands, with a weekend trip to a yet-to-be-revealed destination. Only three people showed up at the event.
• Several UK newspapers, including The Telegraph [100], reported on the Dorset Naga, a chilli pepper grown in Dorset, England and claimed to be the world's hottest at 876,000 Scoville units.

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See also

• April 1, 2006 Short list of the most prominent hoaxes.

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External links

• A list of 2006 April Fool's internet pranks
• BBC list of 2006 April Fools
• Top 10 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time