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jbwillia

The 2006 "best of" in online April Foolery...

Apr 01, 2006 05:06

Yeah yeah, every year, same day (you know, as in today!) it's to be expected. The über l33t webmasters out there throw us a bone, and what fun we have with it. So yeah, without further ado, my top 5 favorites amongst this years April Foolery...
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spinto April 1 2006, 18:15:34 UTC

While technically not valid because it's not interweb, apparently Intel pulled a prank on their employees on their intranet site. Complete with a video and everything that said they were merging with Apple. Here's a copy of my friend's description of it ( ... )

spinto April 1 2006, 18:15:40 UTC

Then the senior designer in the next cubicle came by. She asked something about if it's real or not. In all seriousness I thought my supervisor (actually my manager, but he had been my supervisor for such a long time that he'd just be my super forever) made a mistake, so I basically told her that these "big agreements" are made all the time, and some of them might even look like mergers but aren't. Take the Micron-Intel alliance, for example (I think at the time I said Infineon, oh well)- There are Intel NAND flash memory chips being made inside Micron's plants ( ... )