The Evil Bit
Posted April 1st, 2003 @ 03:29pm by Erik J. Barzeski
The Evil Bit is a pretty lame April Fool's joke. This is the best that the brightest minds in the world could muster? Bummer. There are one or two previous IP jokes at ietf.org.
Anyone have any good April Fool's jokes? I liked Unsanity's and CPAN's (this one won't work after today). Adam has one or two moderately amusing ones. Michael is keeping a list.
Posted 01 Apr 2003 at 3:39pm #
You're right. Evil bit == not funny.
I gotta disagree, though, the ol' "ha ha we got bought by (whoever)" joke isn't funny either -- not even when I did it.
Maybe I am just getting too old and curmudgeonly to find net humor all that funny anymore.
--Kynn
Posted 01 Apr 2003 at 4:01pm #
It is funny that CmdrTaco posted it 4 times (and counting), yet people still are complaining it is a dupe. Don't they notice that the SAME person posted it multiple times?
Posted 01 Apr 2003 at 4:43pm #
Okay, the dupe thing is funny.
--Kynn
Posted 01 Apr 2003 at 5:07pm #
http://perversiontracker.com/ has a good buyout joke going.
Posted 01 Apr 2003 at 5:18pm #
April fools!
I am sorely dissappointed with the internet's April Fools jokes, this year. Last year we had Google's Pigeon Ranking, this year the best I could find was PerversionTracker's buyout, and that was due to the fact that they uglied up their own website, ma...
Posted 01 Apr 2003 at 5:27pm #
This is the best I've seen so far. http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/
Posted 01 Apr 2003 at 11:35pm #
in fact the unsanity one was a copy of the rogue amoeba one (which is much better)...
/vinay
Posted 01 Apr 2005 at 5:37am #
Here are some:
Google Gulp:
http://www.google.com/googlegulp/
Linspire’s Ltoast:
http://media.linspire.com/ltoast
Boing Boing - A directory of Dull Things:
http://boringboring.org/