Agreed, this tradition needs to die a quick and quiet death. I actively avoid the internet on April 1st because of it. The problem is that the April Fools "sen

Agreed, this tradition needs to die a quick and quiet death. I actively avoid the internet on April 1st because of it. The problem is that the April Fools "sense of humor" is mostly of the "amateur thinks they are funny" quality. The pranks are mostly tech geek inside jokes that look embarrassing to anyone outside that social bubble. I admit I'm inside the same geek bubble but at least notice the outside reactions. Ask yourself who cares about the clippy resurrection referenced in the article? How does one day of willful misinformation work in a medium used as indefinitely persistent storage of human knowledge?