- Geek/Talk changed its name and logo to Gtalk after claiming to have been acquired by Google . New moderators from 'Google' were introduced to help sell the gag.
- www.samurize.com incorporated a Pink theme for their site, and changed the name from Samurize to '1337 Powerpuff Girls Meter Tool'.
- www.Airliners.net incorporated a Pink theme for their front page. They had a message on the front page saying "With over 98% male users, Airliners.net needs to take major action to attract more female visitors. As a first step, we're changing the colors of the site to shades of pink. The whole site will soon be totally pink. Enjoy!"
- fuckedgoogle.com the author of this notorious anti-google site claimed to have fallen in love with a google employee. the site was totally redesigned to show his love for google and his re-thinking of the whole "google is evil" thing.
- Hedgehog World changed its theme to include ferrets instead of hedgehogs. It changed back around 11:00 PM EST.
- Unicyclist Fourms changed to a pink theme. It changed back around 9:00EST.
- theme is in stark Contrast for a techie Website Believed to be mostly frequented by Male Nerds . A "Special Birthday Report" {Link without Title} about Jeff "Hemos" Bates emerged in the first minutes of the day. A link to Thinkgeek's wireless extension cords has also been posted.
- Linkfilter changes its default theme to resemble that of MetaFilter [http://users.linkfilter.net/%7Edeathburger/images/metalinkfilter.png].
- , announcing that they have merged to form "Toogle". {Link without Title}
- Compsci Compsci v3 was released, Hello Kitty theme!
- Jude2.com Christian Forums changed the logo and color theme to bright, multi, obnoxious colors.
- DSmeet.com changed its name and design to Turtle Land , confusing many of its members.
- Broadsheet , a .
- Webstock , serves its pages without images, CSS or javascript as an environmentally conscious guesture.
- http://www.forgetfoo.com foo put up a new page that simply said "Its been fun", redirecting every page on his site to this one, implying that he had shut his site down for good.
- Boylove web forum BoyChat changed its site banner to read "MaoChat: Discussion Board of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China."
- DDR Online Brasil , a ).
- Zophar's Domain , an emulation portal, changed to a google-like theme and announced that they had merged with google to form "Goophar's Domain"
- JamBase , a live music search engine, changed to a Google like theme: [http://www.jambase.com/google.html]
- Sonic Classic changed it's entire website to a page owned by a person under the nickname "ih8bush," which was deliberately done very badly.
- DevImg comments are filtered into an AOL-speak format.
- Psypoke celebrated "Seizure Awareness Day". The background consisted of flashing colors. This was a parody of the Electric Soldier Porygon controversy.
- Cartoon Network 's Adult Swim message board administrators changed the language filter from normal "
--bleep
--" to funny sayings like '
--GOLD TEETH
--. However, they took it down within a couple hours. They renamed several members to 'Canada' and various other countries and cities. On the block they aired Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos instead of the scheduled Inuyasha.
- All content on the Ordo Templi Orientis U.S. Grand Lodge site was modified to follow Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth 's spelling conventions ("ov" rather than "of", for example).
- Ephemeral has rankled the X-Files fanfic community, replacing their favorite characters in posted fanfic with burrowing animals.
- OS News gave every member who logged in an upgrade to subscriber edition for free, saying that a "haxx0r" had hacked into the OS News servers.
- Broadbandreports forums switched many members' avatars around.
- 12 Noon Sports Forum made an announcement that the forum was under new management by a member named "Mr. L33T!!!" (who was really an Admin with a different display name) who only talked in Leetspeak . In addition, some of the sections had their names and descriptions translated into Leetspeak .
- 2ch.net , the largest public message board in Japan, marked all posts made on April 1st, 2006 with the date March 32nd, 2006. Japanese Wikipedia page here.
- endignorance.com , an underground Guam -based community calls it quits .
- Albino Blacksheep 's front page linked to a Flash video supposedly representative of "one of the best animations in the Flash industry," which was instead a crudely animated, nonsensical video of stick figures and defecation.
- Sitcoms Online changed the user rank of all of it's forum members plus it's moderators and administrators to "Banned", and changed the rank of it's banned users to "Administrator"
- TDZK 's ship classes were changed to various types of fish, and several weapons were renamed to those of fishing tools, such as fileting knives, spears, and nets.
- The main website of KO-Chan.org was changed to look like it was undergoing Japanese translation and looked as if it were being bought out by 2ch, followed by a front page that displayed a message from Interpol, stating that the website had been shut down due to the promotion of illegal immigration in Europe.
- New Zealand Humor based forum loob.co.nz translated their entire site into Spanish. screenshot
- Golem-Templates , Template web page switches their layout to display terrible web designs and stock photos no one would want.
- East Coast Scanning Resources administrator, embj, planned a fake website hacking. The logo was changed to depict the character, Plankton, from the television series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', the "Hosted by:" logo was changed from "ServerFAQs" to "server FAGS", the forum name was changed to "JOES PUBLIC ENTERTAIMENT network", and the so called "hacker" registered and made a post from the IP address of 0.0.0.0. Also, the forum permissions were changed to only display forums to the administrators; however, the other administrator, Joseph11, had his password changed so he could not access his account. The staff had no knowledge of this prank.
- Mobius-X A Sonic The Hedgehog and Megaman fan-site, faked a hacker attack, in which the forum skin was changed and a Chuck Norris banner was added. The kicker though was the editing of the word filters to replace every vowel and other letters with "CHUCK NORRIS", so messages appeared like so: thCHUCK NORRISs CHUCK NORRISs stCHUCK NORRISpCHUCK NORRISd.
- Jonny's Place A Sonic the Hedgehog fansite, was changed to a supposed archive of Hentai , but each image was actually a popular 4chan meme known as "Cock Mongler." The forums also saw changes; word filters caused words such as "Sonic" and "Mario" to become switched, and the only available emoticon was a Photoshopped image of the face of one of the administrators.
- Malespank A male/male spanking story archive changed the male pronouns in all 8300 stories into female.
- MetalMachineMusic A Zoids RPG website replaced their homepage with a notice supposedly from Block9 saying that Hasbro had complained to them about the content of the site and it was going to be taken down in 48 hours. Also, some members of the forums had their Avatars changed to one of something similar to a running Llama, in different attire.
- Dogasu's Backpack A Pokemon web site that compares American and Japanese version of "Pocket Monster" with 4Kids's edited version did a fake version of 4Kids only edit for "Mean With Evy" that replaced Glalie for a trainer's Jynx .
- ConsoleCity.com announced that a merger had taken place between Sega parent company Sammy and Capcom, forming a new company called Segacom, which was to launch a new console in 2008.
- Weblognews.nl announced to pay Bloggers for their posts if they placed an iframe-banner on their site. Many signed up, only to see the banner on their own site change to "Wooot! you're pwned by Ochblog !" on April first.
- SaysDave reported on the new defense teleportation system.
- Ctrl-click , a technology news site, announced that a takeover by Macrumors.com has been completed.
- The Thudgame Discworld Boardgame site announced that they had been acquired by Google and released a Google-ised beta version of the new Thud client to celebrate the "event"!
- Capitalex.com announced that PayPal has acquired e-gold!
- Google Community announced that they were acquired by Yahoo!
- HaikuNews has a story of two developers working on a haiku port to a palm handheld and a cellphone. This article also claims that haiku is forking to use the linux kernel.
- Yahoo has an "SM News" breaking story about a new "No Talking" law on New York City Subways - Yahoo.com (''Note: is a Sierra Mist ad that does redirect, but plays a video in page'')
- A leaked Google press release announces that AdSense publishers can now click their own ads as long as they don't use automated means to do it.
- AOL UK announces a new Reality Show , where celebrities will operate on members of the public. This entertainment news item seems to be in AOL members-only pages. The link for members of the public to apply to be operated on goes to April Fools hoax on Google .
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- '' will be Wisps . They possess the radical ability to detonate themselves in order to strengthen their fellow players or weaken enemies. Due to the fact that the player would be permanently dead after doing this, many players claim that this is not a joke, considering the news was released on March 31 - the day April Fool's Day. However, when the information was released, it was April 1st in China and Japan, with China having a very large World Of Warcraft presence.
- Blizzard Entertainment announced the 1.11 Patch Notes . Just days after 1.10 was released!
- Bungie Studios announced more information about their annual April Fool's joke, Pimps At Sea http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=BngeWklyUpdteMar31&p=6540570
- CityHippy reported that President Bush was planning to drill for Oil under Yellowstone National Park.
- A1 Grand Prix announces the calander for the 2006/7 season, including many new motor racing venues.
- Inside Sarbanes Oxley announces that, given the pending retirement of Senator Paul Sarbanes, they will now refer to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as "Oxley-Ox."
- Wikitravel features the island of " San Serriffe " as their destination of the month.
- Knobtweakers (the largest electronic music mp3 blog) Announced that it's changing its format to country music.
- DCEmus PSP News , announce the release of the worlds first Nintendo DS Emulator for the PSP Console.
- to construct a dome over Wrigley Field , and to rename the park Walter E. Smithe Field.
- The Faith and Linux-oriented ChristianSource mailing list's moderator announces that Google has purchased the list as part of its plans to start Google Christian, the index of "as much of God as He will allow."
- CNET posted video reviews of the fake E-vri-thin gadget , a 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham , and a 1988 Ford Crown Victoria Country Squire LX .
- ConservativeDebate posted a fake article concerning a make-believe trip that Sandra Day O'Connor made to the UN. The word censor was also changed so every use of the article 'a' was replaced with the message "April fools".
- DivX Head Up Display (XHUD) , an in-car head up display for projecting DivX video on your front windshield.
- Desicritics.org announces that Sonia Gandhi is returning to Italy , George Clooney is running for President in 2008 , and Saurav Ganguly is retiring from Cricket
- Edmunds.com announced Lotus' decision to build a pick-up truck named F1.50 with an 11 pound payload and 22 pound hauling load.
- Electric Minds announced its acquisition by Slashdot to create "SlashMinds."
- Eskimo Bob announced a name change to "Chauncey of the North" to avoid confusion with Bob The Builder . {Link without Title}
- The MMORPG, Eternal Lands announced that it had been bought out by the FSF for $250000 and 4000 shares, so all Windows builds would be removed, rare items would be redistributed, and everything would be released under the GPL v3. Unfortunately, many players were fooled by the extremely obvious fake. See {Link without Title} .
- FictionAlley.Org announced a merger with Google , Microsoft , AOL , Coca Cola , The Walt Disney Company , American Airlines , Wal Mart , Lush , Yahoo , Nike , and Daniel Radcliffe , to better supply the consumerist needs of all people everywhere.
- Zeldalounge announces it was taken over by wucha
- GameSpot , reports on Blizzard Entertainment 's upcoming MMO World of Starcraft and the Top 10 Final Fantasy Games of all time . They also had news stories on Cowbell Hero and a new ESRB ASS rating .
- Games Workshop reports they acquired the rights to De Bellis Antiquitatis rule set and previews their new roman-line ape models .
- Google Operating System Blog introduces Google Browser, a fast, versatile and secure text browser for the Internet. Google Browser is free, already out of beta, and the installer has only 1.68 MB. (In fact, the browser is based on Lynx .)
- , and that the show is shifting to a video-game focus.
- Ibiblio , one of the oldest WWW sites and a large information collection, has proposed , the radical and innovative BLiNG tag to the W3C.
- Invisionize , an Invision Power Board resource website, announced it was introducing a new strict one-strike policy , inciting protest from several members.
- QuakeNet , the worlds largest IRC network, reports that all users of the popular NNScript for mIRC will be G-lined from its network due to a patent violation. {Link without Title}
- DS Fanboy , a blog focusing on the Nintendo DS from Joystiq , posts that Nintendo has announced that the upcoming DS game, ''New Super Mario Bros.'', will only run on the Nintendo DS Lite .
- Moodle announced that they would be converting the code for their entire Open Source Learning Management System from PHP to .NET code before April 1, 2007.
- song for almost 12 hours long, to pick up two secret words broadcasted.
- Mess.be 's administrator, Dwergs, announces that his site will now shift focus from Microsoft's MSN Messenger to Google's IM Client, Google Talk.
- NSMB.com announced that BikerFox joined Team nsmb.com.
- CONNECTING THE DOTS a technology blogger gives up nearly a year and a half of effort to become 'Connecting the Stitches', one man's journey into knitting.
- Newgrounds.com annouced that they have acquired I-Mockery.com . The actual I-Mockery homepage was styled to look Newgrounds-branded and was renamed I-Grounds.
- Paper Programs , a small Open Source Development group was bought up by Microsoft
- Pkmn.Net reported that the elusive Celebi could be caught in Pokémon Emerald . In addition, anyone typing ' Pokémon ' in the forums would have it come out as ' Digimon ', among many other things.
- Sirius Backstage announces that Sirius Satellite Radio will begin having up to 6 minutes of commercial on 5 different music stations.
- Astronomy Picture of the day sing the new camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been able to confirm that the Moon is made of green cheese. The telling clue was the resolution of a marked date after which the Moon may go bad.
- Channel 9 Mike Hall - Network Enabled Refrigeration Device (and pranks at Microsoft)
- Celebrity Death Toll reports that Christopher Walken is dead.
- TVEps is reporting that Isaac 'Chef' Hayes not leaving southpark after all. He comes clean that it was a publicity stunt.
- Macintosh news website TidBITS announces that editor Joe Kissell is leaving to "spend more time with his family."
- 22Pixels reports on a new Adobe Photoshop CS2.5 , the download leads to the old Random Burper .
- 4chan claims that their editor called moot has been eaten by a Shark
- p0rk.com decides to stay open.
- Chitika declares invalid clicks valid
- Gorillaz-Unofficial , a Livejournal-based fansite dedicated to animated supergroup Gorillaz , posts a fictitious newspaper article claiming 2-D's ex-girlfriend and Gorillaz ex-guitarist Paula will be rejoining the band on their upcoming world tour and releasing a solo album including the single "Baby To Me You're Nothing But A Dick And A Wallet (So Why Don't You Love Me No More?)." The article is supposedly taken from Musicmatch Magazine, which does not actually exist, and site moderator 2-J later confessed that a "talented graphics artist" was responsible for the prank.
- Cosplay.com Front page had an image of a lumberjack stating that the site had been "Lumberjaxxed." Upon clicking the image, you were taken to the forums which had a picture of Paul Bunyan and his blue Ox. Many of the forum titles were changed and words were automatically replaced, such as "anime" to "japanimation."
- MacGenealogy.org announces Apple entering the genealogy business and releasing "iRoots" and "iRoots Pro" genealogy applications in early 2007.
- ntl:hell claims to be now owned and operated by BT.
- VideoLAN reports they dropped support for G4 and G5 series to only support Intel .
- HAHMED.COM - Announced that his website/domain would be sold on ebay, and his widely-read blog would now come to an end
- www.mtgsalvation.com - In wake of the lawsuit against one of its members for 'leaking' information before the release of a set, the staff of the respective forum announced that . They went as far as purchasing a new url (www.cardgamesalvation.com), creating a new logo for the site, changing members names so that they did not reference any cards from the game, and censoring the word 'Magic'.
- MagicTheGathering.com provided viewers with "live coverage" of a "Global Prix", a fake event that anyone in the world who played on April 1 was automatically entered in. Updates throughout the day gave "standings" which had the names of many professional players, generally from one continent only. Also, profiles with "famous" players were released, among them BYE, who had appeared at every event in history and had never won a match before shocking the world by going 5-3 in the Global Prix. (This was a parody on the Magic Swiss-style tournament seedings, where players not matched up would get a bye and an automatic win; this is represented in records as the match "Player vs. BYE".)
- Nwizard.com , a Nintendo-centric videogame news site, has reported that the recently indefinitely delayed Starcraft: Ghost has been announced for the Nintendo Revolution. In addition, various modules around the site have been "April Fooled".
- Colgate-Palmolive announces it shall be merging with NYLUG in an effort to create open source cleaning products.
- Macrumors.com created a page of fake Apple rumors, including iTunes changing to WMA, and Apple and Disney acquiring each other in a complicated takeover.
- Anything4Free.com posted a news blog featuring OfferCentric , LLC which mocked FreePay 's new 90-Day Policy.
- Amazon.com CTO announces that Amazon will make all employee IM addresses available for better customer service.
- Conservative journal Enter Stage Right announced on its blog that its conservative founder had converted to liberalism and would use the site to only promote "social justice"
- Sonic Cult faked various Sonic X-treme related information and images, claiming it to be from a lost beta which was up for download, but did not work on any emulators.
- Turdhead.com introduced its newest online game, "Staring Contest" (a followup to last month's "Guess Which hand").
- The Noblecast commentator Noble Brown announced that he was giving his life to Christ and turning himself in for all his horrid, unspeakable deeds.
- AOL SVP AOL SVP Sree Kotay announces new B3 browser release by AOL.
- MyGamerCard.net and Achieve360Points.com , two popular , J Allard.
- , which was fake.
- Rizon IRC Network 's Nessun put out the following global message: "Rizon has been contacted by the MPAA and given a legal document stating we must give out every users ip. For more information on this or to find out how to keep ur ip from being handed out please see #help Thanks." The topic on #help was "READ ME IF YOU MISS THIS YOUR AN IDIOT APRIL FOOLS"
- Department of Homeland Security is tracking people just by inputing a cell phone number is World Wind.
- Woot, Inc. set their "I Want One!" button to follow the visitor's mouse cursor so the only option was to buy a drain opener nominated as one of the 'worst woots ever'. {Link without Title}
- Bulbagarden , Pokémon Palace and #pocketmonsters put out a special edition of their "Bulbacast" Pokémon podcasts, announcing a raft of recently uncovered features and names for the Diamond/Pearl Pokémon games scheduled for release in Japan later this year, apparently from an exclusive behind doors interview at the GDC. In addition, they presented news stories from the Japanese Pokémon site PokéAni , including an announcement of a spin-off Pokémon anime, based on the Pokémon - Fushigi no Dungeon series of games.
- The Seattle Podcasting Network is reporting on the , an iPod add-on that helps toddlers speed up the toilet training process.
- Operation Sports posted a fake news story about the release of ESPN NFL 2k7, after there was a loophole found in the EA exclusivity agreement with the NFL and the NFLPA. The article even featured a Photoshopped cover that was created by the site's owner, Steve Noah.
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog has entire blogging staff quitting because commenters are mean.
- Hackaday goes autonomous, claiming markov chains will instead be writing their posts.
- Download Squad goes automated, using Racter to write its posts.
- The personal blog of Kees Cook announced he had discovered a flaw in NetFlix allowing anyone to download movies free of charge.
- The computer security website WBG Links reports that 'Microsoft announces that Windows Vista will be open sourced. It is also reported that Ballmer smells of bourbon and monkey poop'.
- MacOSXHints announced the introduction of a new Mac Mini Tower with 2 Intel DuoCore and 1 IBM G5 processors.
- Dark Horizons mentions fake news stories: "V for Vendetta" Sequel Planned and "Harry Potter" Shot Back To Back .
- VMK Magic's staff was turned into robots.
- Deliverance-Online Server Change of all server operations
- VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas features "Mega Man Solid X: Guns Of The Mavericks", a fake cross-over Mega Man X and Metal Gear game, as the Maps Of the Month for April. A corresponding web site, solid-x.com , is made by some of those involved to push the idea of the game's existence.
- The X Bridge , a site dedicated to action-animation and and TSN to form ''The X Bridge'', a North American-based domain dedicated to Extreme Sports .
- Tower.com online music retailer announces going big box. Coming soon: refrigerators, washing machines and more awesome appliances!
- Indieish.com : Your Free Music Daily Independent music site Indieish.com announces boing boing and RIAA to join forces in promoting Digital Rights Management.
- ClutchFans.net , a highly popular fan site for the had been signed to a six year, $54 million contract extension. Ryan currently makes less than $1 million per year.
- Gamer Within A video game-orientated website, announces that Rare is bringing the original Perfect Dark to the Xbox Live Arcade, allowing Xbox 360 owners to download and play the Nintendo 64 original.
- LX Forums To the mixture of horror and excitement of Dodge Magnum owners, it was announced that Daimler Chrysler would halt production of the car after only two years of production.
- OpenWrt , a Free Software distribution for wireless routers, announces a 'Koolaid' release to attract younger users.
- The Shroomery , a site about psychedelic mushrooms, shocked its community when it was discovered the site was posted for sale on eBay along with all access logs and e-mail addresses.
- Vnunet.com says that Google will spend US$1 billion dollars to "brand its logo into the surface of the moon so that it is visible from Earth."
- Weebl's-Stuff {Link without Title} posted an announcement that stated that Weebl had been hit by a 4x4 car. This promoted responses both of caring and cynicism on the Weebls-stuff forums, and as the day progressed, and the announcement became more ridiculous, it started to become apparent that it was an April Fool's joke. Skoo (the writer of the article) declared on the forum that it was just a joke, and in fact, Weebl's last words to him were "If I get hit by a car, I'm blaming you"
- TACKtech.com A computer news/resource site was completely backwords.
- HD Beat announces first Blu-Ray player which comes for just $299,-
- {Link without Title} announces that Matt Leinart is not entering the NFL draft in order to pursue his dreams of ballroom dancing.
- GCFL.net , a highly popular, familiy-friendly joke site, published a fake press release announcing that it was bought by Playboy.
- New English Review announced that Muslims were going to go on an anti-Islam demonstration in London.
- Yahoo! buys all the Web 2.0 companies in existence.
- --- Goobix.com has announced that it was acquired by Yahoo! as a Web 2.0 company, following their evil plan of dominating the "Web 2.0" Internet. [http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000276.html]
- --- Juxel.com ( NSFW ) also announced it was acquired by Yahoo!, and changed their logo to match. [http://www.juxel.com/blog/2006/04/01/yahoo-buys-juxel/]
- SitePoint published an article giving advice on how to build your own successful Web 2.0 application . The article satirizes the recent eBook, Getting Real published by the poster-child of Web 2.0 businesses, 37signals , and among its suggestions advises readers to "set it up and sell it off -- implementation is for losers!" They also announced they would be charging for posts to their General Chat forum, which angered a number of regular visitors .
- Ajaxian feature an article on Safety-Critical Ajax .
- Meetro announces their acquisition of Friendster for their 'web2.0' technology to help enable 'random hookups.'
- mabber invents an instant messaging HUD for car windshields.
- SQL On Rails version 4.1 is released. The new version promises to revolutionize web development. A screencast detailing how to build a search engine in 8 minutes accompanies the release.
- deviantART announces a sneak peak of their upcoming dAv5 Skin, in all its Web 2.0 glory . [http://news.deviantart.com/article/20566/ News article.
- hypocritical , oft the critic of the Web 2.0 crowd, gives up and redesigns in a glowing pink, gradient, diagonal hash, glassy, reflective way. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
- Online comic Protection Fault went to a [retro] look, including the art style, for the day.
- Sonic Cult faked a Sonic X-treme beta, which was revealed today. The user drx created a fake beta and convinced people with several images and a video.
- {Link without Title} Compsci v3 was released, Hello Kitty theme!
- LukeW Interface Designs reported acquiring OK/Cancel, who announced the acquisition with a comic.
- www.SMOSH.com featured a pointless looping flash movie of a penguin and a turkey playing tennis on it's front page, claiming it to be the best cartoon on the site.
- SearchIRC.com is purchased by Yahoo! to expand their Web 2.0 properties. (SearchIRC is not a Web 2.0 site, by any means)
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