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The best April Fools joke I can remember was an anti-joke, when Google announced Gmail on the 1st of April. They were promising what were then unbelievably gene
by chimprich 7y ago
The best April Fools joke I can remember was an anti-joke, when Google announced Gmail on the 1st of April. They were promising what were then unbelievably generous allowances and no one could agree on whether they were serious or not.
- yreg 7y agoGMail offered 1000MB of storage on launch. Their main competitors Yahoo! and Hotmail offered 10MB. http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3334201 http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3334201
- onion2k 7y agoFor me, a former Perl hacker, the Parrot announcement represents the best April Fool's joke. https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195724/http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/01/parrot.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195724/http://www.perl.c... The official Perl.com site announced Perl and Python were going to merge so you could run both languages in the same interpreter. In itself that was quite amusing, but the best part is that the Raku project actually adopted the name for their VM because it could actually do that, and became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine, so what started out as a proper joke turned out to be real.
- petecox 7y agoparrot VM: initially a joke until someone twigged that a dynamic-lang runtime to compete with .Net & JRE wasn't so absurd.