Are there any good April Fools jokes today? For example, a few years ago Google announced a sewage based ISP (i.e. flush some fiber optic cable down the toilet and they would fish it out and connect it).

The only one I have come across is IGN article about the Nintendo Virtual Boy Pro.

  • QuantumBamboo
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    441 year ago

    For an IRL example… I explained April Fools Day to my 4 year old kid this morning for the first time. His first instinct was to wrap a piece of Lego in foil and have me write CHOC on it, then leave it outside the bedroom door for my wife (who was having a lie in). I think he gets it!

  • @Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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    361 year ago

    My son (5 y/o) walked into my office and said “dad! I brought you something”. I assumed it was a piece of Easter candy because he had a hand behind his back. I asked him what did he have.

    He turned around, let out a huge fart, and said “Fooled you!” Then he put on his cowboy hat and walked out of the room.

    Yep, gottem.

  • MentalEdge
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    1 year ago

    Google Japan always pulls a joke about how they’ve developed a new better Google Japanese Keyboard.

    So far there’s been a spoon you bend to different angles to select characters, and a giant keyboard key you wear as a hat and use by reaching up and spinning it to point in the cardinal direction of a given character, and then enter it by pressing the single giant key-hat thing.

    It’s especially funny with Google being such a massive monolithic company, and there’s the Japanese branch just doing their own thing.

    I also participate in the Titanfall modding scene, and each year for April fools the Northstar master server displays everything in uwu language.

    • Daze
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      51 year ago

      Thank you for sharing!! All of those Gboard videos are absolute gold lmfao

  • @Jikiya@lemmy.world
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    231 year ago

    I think The Lockpicking Lawyer (YouTuber)has consistently put out good April’s fools videos. I do have a sophomoric sense of humor though, and they are all based on innuendo.

  • @Wiz@midwest.social
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    161 year ago

    The StreetComplete app for Open Street Map had its map cursor being a Nyan cat with a rainbow trail behind it.

  • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    101 year ago

    Sadly I feel like this tradition is drying up more and more each year. I remember like 10-15 years ago tons of sites did really big things for the day. I honestly forgot today was April 1st until I saw this post. I miss it.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    81 year ago

    Yes, I’ve been known to partake in some. Was sitting in the front seat of a bus, and the buses have a rule where, at all the train tracks, they’re supposed to briefly stop and open the bus doors to see if they hear any train coming before closing the door and driving onward again. The bus had stopped to do just that, and at that very moment, I played a train sound effect I had ready on my phone. The bus driver looks around and is weirded out by the “seeming invisible train”.