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Google's April Fools jokes were pretty benign anyway... obviously anything related to the virus would be in terribly bad taste, but I don't see why something in

Google's April Fools jokes were pretty benign anyway... obviously anything related to the virus would be in terribly bad taste, but I don't see why something in the same vein as https://maps.googleblog.com/2012/03/begin-your-quest-with-google-maps-8-bit.html https://maps.googleblog.com/2012/03/begin-your-quest-with-go... would need to be cancelled. IF anything, we need the humor now more than ever to lift people's spirits.

mcphage 7y ago
But they weren’t that funny. They were mostly just annoying.
- catalogia 7y ago
  It's a truly lame and obnoxious "holiday" all around. I'd be glad to see it cancelled indefinitely.
- derision 7y ago
  To each their own, personally I look forward to it every year to see the creative things companies come up with
  - daveFNbuck 7y ago
    They're creative and interesting, but not that many of them are actually funny.
- ProblemFactory 7y ago
  Launching GMail on April 1st was funny. Nobody believed that 1GB of free email storage was real, back then ~10MB was the norm.
  - desert_boi 7y ago
    Now we've got more storage than we'll ever need. > On a larger scale, he says that the world's data centers in 2010 accounted for 130 million tons of CO2e, or a quarter of a percent of the world's global total. Berners-Lee projected that the world's data centers will produce 250 to 340 million tons CO2e by 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25/how-bad-is-email-for-the-environment/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25...
  - __s 7y ago
    Similar good "not really fooling you": https://github.blog/2010-04-01-announcing-svn-support https://github.blog/2010-04-01-announcing-svn-support
  - catalogia 7y ago
    Sure it fooled people, it fooled me, but was it really funny? I mean, did you laugh? I was surprised (pleasantly even), but it's not like it made me giggle.
- buu700 7y ago
  I thought Google TiSP was funny.
thaumasiotes 7y ago
I liked Google Gulp. https://archive.google.com/googlegulp/ https://archive.google.com/googlegulp/
- sterlind 7y ago
  "64-bit encryption" is charmingly quaint.
derekp7 7y ago
My Aunt would disagree. She had a bunch of her pictures of her late husband ruined because Google thought it would be cute to Photoshop David Hasselhoff into them. Especially some of the last pictures she had of him in the hospital (he died pancreatic cancer), and "The Hoff" was showing up in them with his thumbs up. After looking through them, I noticed that at least Google duplicated the pictures and left the original on alone. But still it would have been better if the doctored photos would have been put in a separate folder. Oh, and lets not forget the "Reply and drop mic" button that showed up right next to the Send button on Gmail. That wasn't benign.
- me_me_me 7y ago
  This sounds terrible, but I can't stop laughing imagining badly photoshoped Hoff with thumbs up by the hospital bed.
funnynotfunny 7y ago
It might help if they were actually funny in any way. The link you posted certainly isn’t.
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mcphage 7y ago

But they weren’t that funny. They were mostly just annoying.

catalogia 7y ago
It's a truly lame and obnoxious "holiday" all around. I'd be glad to see it cancelled indefinitely.
derision 7y ago
To each their own, personally I look forward to it every year to see the creative things companies come up with
- daveFNbuck 7y ago
  They're creative and interesting, but not that many of them are actually funny.
ProblemFactory 7y ago
Launching GMail on April 1st was funny. Nobody believed that 1GB of free email storage was real, back then ~10MB was the norm.
- desert_boi 7y ago
  Now we've got more storage than we'll ever need. > On a larger scale, he says that the world's data centers in 2010 accounted for 130 million tons of CO2e, or a quarter of a percent of the world's global total. Berners-Lee projected that the world's data centers will produce 250 to 340 million tons CO2e by 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25/how-bad-is-email-for-the-environment/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/01/25...
- __s 7y ago
  Similar good "not really fooling you": https://github.blog/2010-04-01-announcing-svn-support https://github.blog/2010-04-01-announcing-svn-support
- catalogia 7y ago
  Sure it fooled people, it fooled me, but was it really funny? I mean, did you laugh? I was surprised (pleasantly even), but it's not like it made me giggle.
buu700 7y ago
I thought Google TiSP was funny.

thaumasiotes 7y ago

I liked Google Gulp. https://archive.google.com/googlegulp/ https://archive.google.com/googlegulp/

sterlind 7y ago
"64-bit encryption" is charmingly quaint.

derekp7 7y ago

My Aunt would disagree. She had a bunch of her pictures of her late husband ruined because Google thought it would be cute to Photoshop David Hasselhoff into them. Especially some of the last pictures she had of him in the hospital (he died pancreatic cancer), and "The Hoff" was showing up in them with his thumbs up. After looking through them, I noticed that at least Google duplicated the pictures and left the original on alone. But still it would have been better if the doctored photos would have been put in a separate folder. Oh, and lets not forget the "Reply and drop mic" button that showed up right next to the Send button on Gmail. That wasn't benign.

me_me_me 7y ago
This sounds terrible, but I can't stop laughing imagining badly photoshoped Hoff with thumbs up by the hospital bed.

funnynotfunny 7y ago

It might help if they were actually funny in any way. The link you posted certainly isn’t.

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