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There was a funny April Fools Day joke once. It was when Google announced a truly preposterous new service: free email with a whole gigabyte of storage for ever
by sketerpot 18y ago
There was a funny April Fools Day joke once. It was when Google announced a truly preposterous new service: free email with a whole gigabyte of storage for everybody. It was ridiculous; nobody would offer that for free, and it was completely unrelated to Google's search business.
The punch line is that it wasn't a joke. Gmail is real, and it really did come with that much storage space. Ha ha ha!
Fake news stories on discussion forums just can't compete with that.
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- nostrademons 18y agoThere was another funny joke where Larry, Guido, et al announced they were going to write a virtual machine called "Parrot" to run Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. It'd be funnier if they'd Ship The Damn Project already.
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- Dobbs 18y agoParrot has shipped, didn't you hear? Currently its only a mostly api-freeze. It still has some optimization issues and what not but hey its getting there.
- jrockway 18y agoParrot 1.0 was released a while ago. It's ready for production, now people just need to target their favorite language to it. (Why you would ship something like this with no complete languages is beyond me. How do you know if your design "works" until is is running real code?)
- windsurfer 18y agoI suppose if it walks like a parrot, talks like a parrot, and looks like a parrot, it must be 1.0, so they shipped.
- cubicle67 18y agoAh, Google. I still remember the day they publicised the secret behind the speed and accuracy of their search results - http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html