Beware the Calends of April

[kevin_standlee]

Because I don't think everyone reading this is also reading debgeisler's journal (although you should), here's a link to the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time.

Thanks to fine hoaxes like these, no sane person will issue a legitimate news story on the first day of April. Every now and then, I've see groups in Fandom forget the date and issue a real announcement that day. Sometimes the announcements are so odd that people assume that they must be hoaxes.

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[querldox.livejournal.com]

Google announced GMail on 4/1, and then spent the rest of the day responding to "You're not serious, are you?" queries (by now, people may have forgotten how major email with (then) 2 GB of storage was compared to existing webmail, so the reaction wasn't just to Google announcing a webmail product, but announcing one so far beyond existing ones).